Is this an X window console....or a straight CTRL-ALT-F1 console? There is a difference. Thanks, Tom Callahan TESSCO Technologies (443)-506-6216 callahant@xxxxxxxxxx A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents on the forehead get too noticeable. Ramer Ortega wrote: > Hi, > > RedHat (and most Linux distro and Unix flavors) automatically blanks > the screen (both text console and X display) when there is no keyboard > or mouse activity for some time. I always thought it is a good > feature, preventing "burns" on the monitor. Until I decided to > migrate our datacenter's monitoring PC from Windows to RedHat. > > We are using a combination of Nagios and MRTG to monitor our servers > and the network bandwidth. The resulting HTML pages are displayed in > some Windows-based PCs manned by datacenter operators. So the good > behavior of Linux to blank the console is not applicable here. > > Things I have tried: > > * disable the power management in the BIOS > * call "setterm -blank 0" during boot up (works only for VT) > * disable apmd > > Still, my consoles go blank. Any other way to disable this feature? > > Thanks in advance. > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
