Re: Blank console on keyboard request

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:05:18 -0500


Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 11:11:19 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

How do I do it with user-mode command? If user-mode command exists,
I'll drop this patch happily, but I was not aware of it existing. I do
not know about screen blanking combinations on neither of my notebooks
(neither toshiba, nor thinkpad). I could turn external display on and
internal off, but that is not quite the same as blanking and will have
bad side effects.

Oops. I stand corrected. There's an TIOCLINUX ioctl for unblanking the
screen, but not for blanking the screen. There should be, though. :-)

Maybe that would be the better patch....

- Ted

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