Re: Stop console going blank (if it is)

In reply to: Frank Leonhardt : "Stop console going blank (if it is)"
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From: Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc_at_fjl.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:05:07 UTC

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!