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Disable console blanking

By silfreed - Posted on October 18th, 2007
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echo setterm -powersave off -powerdown 0 -blank 0 >> /etc/rc.local


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Gentoo version
Submitted by Andy Blyler (not verified) on Thu, 2008/01/10 - 22:40.

Thanks for this tip! Below is what I have been using on Gentoo boxes:

echo "setterm -powerdown 0 -blank 0" >> /etc/conf.d/local.start

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Ubuntu version (no errors when X is running)
Submitted by Helge Larsen (not verified) on Thu, 2008/02/21 - 13:47.

I use this code in my /etc/rc.local
sh -c 'setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0 < /dev/console > /dev/console 2>&1'
Running setterm while X is running will normally produce an error - this wont.

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