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    SubjectRe: Turning off automatic screen clanking
    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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