screen goes blank

xkalibur · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 25

i just got gentoo installed (without X). after i let the system sit for about 10/15 min, the screen goes blank. that happened during the install, but all i had to do was hit a key and the screen would come back on. now, after installation, hitting a key does not work. it just stays blank.
any help :?:

Nitromaroder · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 11:09 pm Post subject:

How about to plug in again your keyboard? (Joke) ;))

It looks to me, that you have a little problem with your powermanagment. Which hardware do you use? How did you compile your kernel (I know, with gcc -haha, again a joke!). I mean, which setting did you in the powermanagment section?

MfG

Denis

P.S.: die M$, die!

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

had this problem when i configured the vesa console on my notebook, so i disabled the console blanking entirely

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Would disabling BIOS power saving features entirely or for the screen solve this?
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Sykus · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 3:20 pm Post subject:

plain old setterm -blank 0 is all my system needed

xkalibur · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 25

thanks a lot guys. i disabled the power saving feature in my BIOS. that helped (was able to tap a key and see the console now).
i also did the setterm command and is working fine.
thanks again.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Turning screen blank off.. now where was it..
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