Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:55:55 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Blank console on keyboard request |
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Hi!
> Funny, I was puzzling over this last night, before I looked at this > thread. > > On my NEC VersSX notebook there does not seem to be a screen blank key > combination. Instead, I had success with FN-F4 ("display") which > switches between external monitor, LCD, and both at once. The LCD > screen can be blanked by switching to just the external monitor (even > if there isn't one). > > Unfortunately, if X is running, the screen gets curdled into garbled > repeating columns. Any idea what is going on?
Yes. Your X do not like your bios, or vice versa.
> On another topic, I find that the regular sync calls from update keep > my system from leaving the disk off for a reasonable amount of time > (at least I think that is what is going on). I suspect that if there > were an option to suppress inode flushing if the only change were to > the access time, these syncs would not actually require disk activity. > Is this guess right? Is there a way to specify that sync should > behave this way? Would it be easy to add?
Get noflushd. Pavel -- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
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