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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Help: Dell SYSVR4
Keywords: SYSV SYSVR4 TTYMON BIDIRECTIONAL
Message-ID: <3106@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 91 16:20:25 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.084300.13358@egsner.cirr.com> <1991Feb2.195744.15339@szebra.uucp> <3090@sixhub.UUCP> <1991Feb7.222422.19476@smsc.sony.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Feb7.222422.19476@smsc.sony.com> tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin "Man" Le) writes:

|   There is one problem that is driving me bonker.  There is a bug in
|   the console driver (or the screen blanker).  It does not matter whether
|   I am  running X or the console is just sitting at the login prompt.
|   After some period of time (don't know how long), but the console
|   "blank" out (i.e. go dark).

  I have no ideas on that one, my X blanks nicely and comes back as
expected, which the regular console never blanks. In fact I wrote a
little command which does the blank, and I manually type blank when I'm
going away. I don't feel ready to write a good blanker yet, and I don't
want a hack.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me