Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:50:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking |
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Norberto BENSA wrote:
> Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Richard B. Johnson 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. > > *IF* Linux primary target is the server market then, what kind of optimization > in console blanking if you need to hack your init script and insert "setterm > -blank 0" somewhere??
oh lord, you make it sound like a lot of work.
<insert reply about 'working out of the box'>
You're convincing the wrong person, it's not a difficult problem just send a patch already instead of slinging arguments for and against back and forth.
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