On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:39:45 -0700 (PDT), Mark Hanson <mbh@netcom.com> said:
> I'm wondering if these previous "silent freezes" I've been having may
> actually be giving Oops's, but I just can't see them because the
> screen is blank and the kernel is too hosed to unblank it. What is
> it exactly that causes the console to blank after a while.
setterm can disable the blanking, and you can also use serial console
(although you need to manually #define CONFIG_SERIAL_ECHO to enable it,
and you need to poke in drivers/char/console.c to change it from com1:).
--Stephen
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