> Funny, I was puzzling over this last night, before I looked at this
> thread.
>
> On my NEC VersSX notebook there does not seem to be a screen blank key
> combination. Instead, I had success with FN-F4 ("display") which
> switches between external monitor, LCD, and both at once. The LCD
> screen can be blanked by switching to just the external monitor (even
> if there isn't one).
>
> Unfortunately, if X is running, the screen gets curdled into garbled
> repeating columns. Any idea what is going on?
Yes. Your X do not like your bios, or vice versa.
> On another topic, I find that the regular sync calls from update keep
> my system from leaving the disk off for a reasonable amount of time
> (at least I think that is what is going on). I suspect that if there
> were an option to suppress inode flushing if the only change were to
> the access time, these syncs would not actually require disk activity.
> Is this guess right? Is there a way to specify that sync should
> behave this way? Would it be easy to add?
Get noflushd.
Pavel
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