F16: "setterm -blank 0" in rc.local ignored

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Tue Mar 13 18:02:13 UTC 2012


On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:09:16PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> is there any magical setting to tell the system that i NEVER
> want blank the screen since i am able to switch off my
> monitor by myself and if it is turned on there is a reason
> for this (long running operation, watched from time to time)

I recommend adding consoleblank=0 to the kernel command line to
permanently disable blanking.


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