screen blanking considered useless

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Thu Sep 20 12:09:47 UTC 2007


On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:44:31PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
>> It would be nice to have an option somewhere in the installer allowing
>> the sysadmin to set the blanking time, or disable it altogether. My
>> preference would be to disable it by default and let the sysadmin
>> override that in the installer, but I think it's fine if it's enabled by
>> default as long as it can be changed in the installer (and it becomes a
>> kickstart parameter too).
>
> Nah -- monitor burn-in is still a potential problem.

  +1 -- I'd consider a change that might damage my hardware to be a 
regression.

      Jima




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