Preventing screen blank in Busybox(embedded linux) on a KERN board

Hello,

I'm trying to run a shell script on a kern board (av1100) that shows some text output on the attached screen. The big problem is that the screen goes to blank in like 2 minutes.

I'd just like to have the script showing it's output while the thing is on.

Isn't there a command to stop the screen from going to blank?

p.s. there is no bash available, just #!/bin/sh

#!/bin/sh 
###########################################################
#
#        Script
# 
#
###########################################################
COUNTER=0
while [ 1 -eq 1 ]
#following didn't work, setterm isn't available
#/usr/bin/setterm -blank 0
do
COUNTER=`expr $COUNTER + 1`
if [ $COUNTER = 20 ]
then
echo "special output"
sleep 3
COUNTER=`expr $COUNTER - $COUNTER`
fi
echo -n "continuous output"
sleep 1
done

You could try using swinput:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/swinput

It can "fake" keyboard and mouse events, and so it can send a "Shift" keyboard event or some-such every once in a while. This assumes that your screen is going blank after 2 minutes of inactivity. If that's not the case, then you'll need to provide more information about your device.

thank you for your comment, I finally solved it by running xterm in x and disabling the screensaver there. this worked okay eventually!