[ANNOUNCE] user_vc_blank-0.1 (blank the console using a userspace helper)

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4767 I think it'd be very good to have a console_blank_hook handler that would call a userspace program/script/generate hotplug event whatever. Currently, the console can only be blanked using APM, so no options exist for people using ACPI. I've got a Rad

Re: RFE: console_blank_hook that calls userspace helper

I can try to do this, but it will have to wait, I've got too much work now. Don't you think the userspace solution deserves a try? Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > >>http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4767: >> >>Bugzilla Bug 4767 RFE: console_blank_hook that can call userspace >>program