Hi,
sorry if this question has been answered before but I couldn't find an answer by searching. When i'm in the console (runlevel 3 i believe - no x) after a while the monitor goes blank. I'm wondering if anyone knows how to keep this from happening. I tried passing append="noacpi" in lilo.conf

thanks for any help

soup

Urr, I got it from blanking in xwindow by adding the section below:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "BlankTime" "6000"
EndSection

By the way, I have a Sync On Green monitor (fix frequency).

If the option on top doesn't work, try this below: (put it in between the Section and EndSection). Also play around with the figure. 6000 works for me and it doesn't go blank for weeks (so far).

# Option "StandbyTime" "36000"
# Option "SuspendTime" "36000"
# Option "OffTime" "36000"

As for in init 3 (console), I can make a wild guess. I guess it got to do with APM instead of ACPI. Maybe you should look in that direction.

The following is in /etc/rc.d/rc.M:

# Screen blanks after 15 minutes idle time.
/bin/setterm -blank 15

comment out the command:

/bin/setterm -blank 15

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Thanks Cerbere!

Do you happen to know how to set the display frequency (refresh rate) for the console?

thanks for the input. I found out that commenting out that line will not keep it from blanking but if you change it from /bin/setterm -blank 15 to /bin/setterm -blank 0 it will disable console blanking

soup

Glad you got it figured out, soup. I knew it was something like that.

And sorry, carboncopy, I have no idea how to change the refresh rate for the console.

You might try playing with some of the kernel settings. Set 'Code maturity level options' ---> 'Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers', then look through the 'Console drivers'.

Just a thought. Good luck!

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

If you are using a framebuffer console (you are if you see a penguin at the top of the text at boot), you can set the refresh rate and resolution using fbset (I'm no fbset wizard, so check out the docs for more info). If you are running in hardware text mode, the refresh rate is hardwired to 60Hz.

If you are running a stock Slackware kernel, edit /etc/lilo.conf to set framebuffer mode (there are a bunch of commented out lines int the default lilo.conf, pick one and uncomment it). If you are compiling yourself you need to enable framebuffer console, as Cerbere pointed out.

/Odie