Disable console screen blanking

[tohox]

Hi,

I noticed that the console screen goes blank after a few minutes and would like to disable this. Under Raspbian in /etc/kbd/config one could set BLANK_TIME=0 and POWERDOWN_TIME=0 to achieve this. What would the equivalent be under PiCore 8.0?

Thanks,

[Misalf]

Not sure for the RPi but one of these usually work for me

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setterm -blank 0


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echo -e '\033[9;0]'


[tohox]

Setterm doesn't seem to be available (I assume it is part of util-linux.tcz?) so I'll try echo -e '\033[9;0]'

Must this be entered on the console itself or would entering it from any SSH terminal window or a startup script work as well?

Thanks,

[Misalf]

I don't know. I'd add it to  /opt/bootlocal.sh .

[andyj]

Try: xset s noblank

[tohox]

So far echo -e '\033[9;0]' works if entered from the physical console or a startup script but not if entered from an SSH terminal window which is fine for me.

Xset also appears to require the installation of a separate TCE extension as it isn't available to me currently.

Thanks!

[beerstein]

hi: please try:
$ xset s off -dpms &
and let me know whether it worked or not

[tohox]

@Beerstein, thanks for the suggestion but I assume xset is used with X? My system is currently running headless.

echo -e '\033[9;0]' did the trick though.

thanks,

[xpector]

For the sake of completeness, here is where ESC[9;#] and other codes come from:

https://www.winds.org/pub/grdl/ANSI.txt -- ANSI Escape Codes List