[gentoo-user] Console won't un-blank

[Michael J. Barillier]

If I leave my laptop unattended (at a console, not X) and the screen
blanks, pressing a key won't un-blank the terminal.  As a test, I ssh'ed
into the laptop and ran:

  # setterm -blank poke >/dev/tty$N

(as root, for the current/active TTY) which according to the man page
should restore the screen - no response.  Also tried chvt but that
didn't work either.  Any suggestions on where to look to see why the
terminal won't restore?  Is this a kernel config (ACPI?) issue, or an
agetty issue?

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