Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!jtsv16!lsican!smartin From: smartin@Canada.lsil.com (Stephen Martin) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: screen blanking Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 15:41:13 GMT References: Sender: usenet@lsican.uucp Followup-To: comp.windows.x Distribution: comp Organization: LSI Logic Corporation of Canada, Inc. Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: jc@raven.bu.edu's message of 8 Mar 91 03:45:41 GMT In article jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes: We just recently upgrade the console to 4.1.1. Now, every so often the screen simply blanks. It will not return with any amount of mouse and key combinations (except the reboot keys *8-) ). If I rlogin into it from elsewhere, and create a console message (ie, su the console, etc..) it will clear. But, only on the console messages..ie, starting up a window remotely on the machine does nothing. I had the same problem on a couple of occasions. Both times were after a power failure which caused the date on the system to get set back a couple of months. Setting the proper date fixed the problem. I think screenblank is comparing the current time against the of a file (/dev/kb ??) to check for input. What ever it is checking against, the time does not get set back when input occures therefore screenblank will see a huge (probably negative) period of time between the current system time and the time of the last input. -- Stephen Martin ------- LSI Logic Corporation of Canada, Inc. Phone: (416) 620-7400 LSI|LOGIC| Suite 1110, 401 The West Mall, Fax: (416) 620-5005 | | Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. Email: smartin@lsican.uucp ------- M9C 5J5 or smartin@Canada.lsil.com