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Offline Daniel

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[SOLVED] BlankScreen in (root) console mode
« on: March 01, 2011, 09:45:24 AM »
Hi,

I boot in root console. But, after a few minuts, the screen become black.

It is because of DPMS.

With X, i use
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xset -dpms
Without X, i've test vbetool (on) but same result after minuts ...

Is there any kernel parameter to set to command line ?
Or anything else ?

Thanks
Daniel.
« Last Edit: March 01, 2011, 11:49:32 AM by Daniel »

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: BlackScreen in console mode
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2011, 11:05:48 AM »
I have never tried this, but have you looked into 'setterm'?
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Re: BlackScreen in console mode
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2011, 11:48:06 AM »
No.

Following your question, i look setterm parameters... and i found a thread solution :
"consoleblank=0" to kernel parameter.

I test it : YESSSS

Thanks!

Daniel.

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Re: [SOLVED] BlankScreen in (root) console mode
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2011, 04:08:17 PM »
Hi,

 Sorry for my noob question but how did you set this kernel parameter?

 There is no 'setterm' command, no environment variable and no file named this on my system.
 (I'm using MicroCore so there is no xversa.)

 What am I missing here?

Andras

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Re: [SOLVED] BlankScreen in (root) console mode
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2011, 04:12:59 PM »
Using AppBrowser's "Provides" button shows that setterm is part of util-linux-ng.tcz

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Re: [SOLVED] BlankScreen in (root) console mode
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2011, 04:13:56 PM »
Oh... okay it's a boot parameter :D Sorry :D
It was just weird that it's not on the page: http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#bootcodes
I thought thats a complete list of the available boot time parameters, but it's not.

Andras

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Re: [SOLVED] BlankScreen in (root) console mode
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2011, 05:36:38 PM »
Check last line (link).
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