Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:46:40 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop console going blank (if it is) Message-ID: <58fcbd866e7f344513b04266ae74a531@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <86ldz6wxh2.fsf@ltc.des.dev> References: <c231768f-33fc-4a22-9587-0078f9c1d559@fjl.co.uk> <86ldz6wxh2.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
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On 2024-10-02 12:33, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> writes: >> I've just asked someone to plug in a monitor and send me a photo of >> the screen. "It's blank". > > By default FreeBSD blanks the console after 300 seconds of inactivity. > You can disable this by adding `blanktime="NO"` to /etc/rc.conf or > /etc/rc.conf.d/syscons. If you can log into the machine remotely, you > can unblank it by typing `vidcontrol -t off </dev/ttyv0` in a root > shell > (sudo won't work because you'd still be trying to open /dev/ttyv0 as > yourself before passing it to sudo). Or ask the person who plugged in > the monitor to also plug in a keyboard and press any key, preferably > Shift or Ctrl as that won't actually do anything other than unblank. > If > it doesn't react to Shift or Ctrl then pressing Caps Lock or Num Lock > and checking if the corresponding LED lights up will let you know if at Thanks! Just what I needed. Alas, no keyboard possible here and no remote login possible as the host is crashing after a kernel panic OR SOMETHING. It's hard to tell when the screen is blank.
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