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  From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@steadycom.com.au>
  To  : Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:21:09 +1030

Re: /dev/console is dead

According to the linux source code, you can do ioctl's on your console
to change various parameters, one of which is enable/disable console
blanking.

Toby

Alex Garner wrote:
> 
> > I think Kirsty's problem sounds more like APM stuff to me.
> > Kirsty: Can you check whether you have the kernel console-blanking
> > enabled?
> 
> Is there an easy way of enabling/disabling this? Like a variable in
> /proc? Or is it a recompile thing?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alex!
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