Disabling console/terminal blanking

[Tom Callahan]

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 at tessco.com

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.
>