Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:05:07 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop console going blank (if it is) Message-ID: <64ef7d018ddafbdc85e923992e09fbe3@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <c231768f-33fc-4a22-9587-0078f9c1d559@fjl.co.uk> References: <c231768f-33fc-4a22-9587-0078f9c1d559@fjl.co.uk>
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On 2024-10-01 10:31, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > I've just asked someone to plug in a monitor and send me a photo of the > screen. "It's blank". > > Horrible memories of "screen savers" being added to later versions of > FreeBSD. > > I can't actually tell if this is the case here - how can you make 100% > sure the video output never gets turned off? > > I'm seeing the following during a boot: "kernel: blanktime." and > getting paranoid. > > "sysrc saver" returns "saver: NO" > > Thanks, Frank. If anyone can answer this I'd still be interested, but I think the box had blanked it's screen because it was in a very bad way. I now have a question about crash dumps, as what's on the screen is not helpful!
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