Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking

From: Petr Vandrovec (vandrove@vc.cvut.cz)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 20:40:04 EST


On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:25:33AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > > If the machine had blanking disabled by default, then the
> > > usual SYS-V startup scripts could execute setterm to enable
> > > it IFF it was wanted.
> >
> > optimise for the common case, just fix your box and be done with it.
>
> One of Richard's points is that there is presently no way to fix the
> box in userspace. If the kernel crashes during boot, it will blank
> the screen and there is no way to unblank it in that state.

I know that it is hack, but does not adding (wher ^[ is escape character)

append="blanking=^[[9;0]"

into /etc/lilo.conf solve this blanking problem?
                                                Best regards,
                                                        Petr Vandrovec
                                                        vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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