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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: ml on March 31, 2010, 06:12:06 AM

Title: preventing screen going blank
Post by: ml on March 31, 2010, 06:12:06 AM

Is there a way to prevent sreen going blank in microcore?
I tried “setterm -powersave off -blank 0”, but it seems that this command is not a part of microcore.
Is there an extension that I have to install?
Thanks in advance

Title: Re: preventing screen going blank
Post by: curaga on March 31, 2010, 06:58:02 AM

setterm is a part of the util-linux-ng extension. Alternatively, you could just look up the terminal ANSI code it uses to set that, and use echo.

Title: Re: preventing screen going blank
Post by: Juanito on March 31, 2010, 07:16:11 AM

the vbetool extension might also be able to do this?

Title: Re: preventing screen going blank
Post by: jls on March 31, 2010, 08:33:36 PM

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xset -dpms

Title: Re: preventing screen going blank
Post by: ml on April 01, 2010, 04:33:02 AM

Quote from: jls_legalize on March 31, 2010, 08:33:36 PM

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xset -dpms

This command doesn’t work in microcore.

The util-linux-ng did the job.
Thanks

Title: Re: preventing screen going blank
Post by: vr on April 01, 2010, 11:13:03 AM

Replying/bumping + subscribing to thread because I need to know this answer too. None of the options mentioned so far work for me either.

Edit: nevermind, got it working per my other thread.

Title: Re: preventing screen going blank
Post by: AlabamaPaul on July 28, 2010, 06:50:51 AM

What I found was that the setterm solution worked, until I issued a "reset" command, which restored the defaults.

The consoleblank kernel command line option can be used to control the console blanking. By adding "consoleblank=0" to my Tiny Core 3.x kernel command line, I disables the console blanking.

Title: Re: preventing screen going blank
Post by: Lee on July 28, 2010, 10:22:30 AM

There's a great solution to this, coming  from the Windows XP world (sort of)...

When my ten-year-olds are playing a game on their mother's computer, they know that if they pause it and walk away for a few minutes the screen-saver will kick in and Mom will, more likely than not, -not- drop what she's doing to come and enter the password yet again for them.  So when they need to step away from the computer for whatever reason, they issue the following command:

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Peter, move the mouse around until we get back.

... and, if he's feeling cooperative, their four-year-old brother will keep the timeout from expiring.  This is approximately as reliable as everything else that happens on a Windows system.

Title: Re: preventing screen going blank
Post by: tinypoodle on July 28, 2010, 12:55:26 PM

I place a heavy metallic lighter on the Fn key  ;)
(I shit you not!)

Title: Re: preventing screen going blank
Post by: AlabamaPaul on July 28, 2010, 05:23:44 PM

With those pesky U.S. Child Labor laws I don't have any 4 year olds at the office (besides, eventually their cookie crumbs will muck up the keyboard), and the lighter is effective (I've used a "Post-It" note wedged between keys), but my management would frown on either of these as a long term solution.

This leaves me the kernel command line option which works.

Well, I guess I could use a co-op instead of the 4 year old, but somehow I don't think that would meet with management approval either.