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On Thursday 17 Oct 2013 21:02:13 Michael J. Barillier wrote: |
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> If I leave my laptop unattended (at a console, not X) and the screen |
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> blanks, pressing a key won't un-blank the terminal. As a test, I ssh'ed |
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> into the laptop and ran: |
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> # setterm -blank poke >/dev/tty$N |
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> (as root, for the current/active TTY) which according to the man page |
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> should restore the screen - no response. Also tried chvt but that |
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> didn't work either. Any suggestions on where to look to see why the |
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> terminal won't restore? Is this a kernel config (ACPI?) issue, or an |
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> agetty issue? |
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Have you tried specifying these commands on the kernel line? |
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consoleblank=0 noclear |
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The former is AFAIK equivalent to setterm -blank 0 but takes effect right from |
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the beginning of the boot sequence; the latter prevents blanking out of the |
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console boot messages just before the login prompt is shown. |
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One of those might help. |
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Regards, |
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Peter |
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