Re: [gentoo-server] Disabling screen blanking

[Sven Wegener]

Lance Albertson wrote:
> Got a simple unix/linux question for ya. How do I disable screen blanking for a
> server? Reason being, I'm having a box locking up hard on me, and I can't even
> see anything on the screen since it won't wake up. I've tried using setterm
> -blank 0, setterm -powersave off, and setterm -powerdown 0.. all don't seem to
> be working for me (at on my machine here at work). This is at a machine 1500
> miles from me, so I can't really do a lot of testing. Is there another method I
> need to use to disable that?

Just to make sure, you're doing this on a remote machine over an SSH 
connection? setterm will echo the control characters to stdout so you 
have to redirect them at the console, e.g.

setterm -blank 0 >/dev/tty1

Hope this helps.
Sven