You can probably leave the powersave out. Unless you have a laptop or kernel
level support
for power management (which is very poor for non-battery power).

jk

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James S. Kaplan KG7FU
Eugene Oregon USA
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http://www.rio.com/~kg7fu
ICQ # 1227639
Have YOU tried Linux today?
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----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Mc Donough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: Killing the console screen saver ?


> Hi James,
> I run RH6.0 with Jnos and was wondering myself how
> to get rid of the screen blanking and found the string on
> the Red Hat site to disable it.
>
> setterm -powersave off -blank 0
>
> It worked on this end.  By the way my Jnos has been up now
> for 83 days without a reboot and that reboot was due to
> a power failure.  I run a 486dx2 with 32 megs with RH6.
> Hope this helps.  73  Steve....
>
> At 07:55 PM 11/21/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >tried 'setterm -blank 0' ??
> >
> >jk
> >
> >-----------------------------
> >James S. Kaplan KG7FU
> >Eugene Oregon USA
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >http://www.rio.com/~kg7fu
> >ICQ # 1227639
> >Have YOU tried Linux today?
> >-----------------------------
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: aa6qn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Linux-Hams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; NOS-BBS
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 2:11 PM
> >Subject: Killing the console screen saver ?
> >
> >
> >> Need to ask the Linux Guru's on how to kill the Linux console screen
> >> black out. Or, at least change the timing on it.  I have a feeling that
> >> it may be part of my lockup problems.  Was looking in the
/etc/sysconfig
> >> but did not see anything regarding the console settings.
> >>
> >> For Richard, I am running RH6.0  with the linux kernel 2.2.13 on a
> >> Pentium 133 with 64meg ram.  I tried several kernels and they all lock
> >> up after a bit. Hmmm, wonder if it is Jnos ? At one time I had it up
for
> >> days without a problem. I am also posting this to the nos-bbs folks, in
> >> case they have some ideas as well.  One thing of note is that while I
am
> >> working on the console , or when someone is using the Squid cache, it
> >> seems not to lockup very often.
> >>
> >> Thank you to all those who responded to my kissattach query.
> >>
> >> 73, John
> >
> >

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