[lug] Screen blanking

[Hugh Brown]

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 16:54 -0700, Daniel Webb wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 10:47:35AM -0600, Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> > Look in the bios, sometimes there's a setting in there..  
> > 
> > xset s noblank
> > 
> > in the X start up scripts should help too.
> 
> If I go to a console with Ctrl-Alt-F2, and it blanks, can that have anything
> to do with X?  I know BIOS can blank a console, but is there anything in the
> Linux kernel level that blanks the screen?

all of my recommendations were for X.  someone else mentioned setterm

from man page

setterm -powersave off

Hugh