Blanking screen when in console

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Sat Dec 10 05:44:21 UTC 2005


On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:34:11 -0500
"'Forum Post" <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>, '@wailuku.xlogicgroup.com
wrote:

> 
> well, in my case I would like for the console to _not_ blank. Is there a
> way to set that up? GRUB maybe?
> 

Not sure exactly what you want, but

setterm -blank 0

will disable blanking of a virtual terminal.

Peter




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