From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:25:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030730012533.GA18663@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0307292015580.11053@montezuma.mastecende.com>
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > If the machine had blanking disabled by default, then the
> > usual SYS-V startup scripts could execute setterm to enable
> > it IFF it was wanted.
>
> optimise for the common case, just fix your box and be done with it.
One of Richard's points is that there is presently no way to fix the
box in userspace. If the kernel crashes during boot, it will blank
the screen and there is no way to unblank it in that state.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-30 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-28 20:00 Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-28 20:01 ` Ben Collins
2003-07-28 20:08 ` Frank v Waveren
2003-07-28 20:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-28 20:45 ` Charles Lepple
2003-07-29 11:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 16:51 ` James Simmons
2003-07-29 17:01 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 17:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 18:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-30 0:17 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30 1:25 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-07-30 1:37 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30 7:14 ` Alex Riesen
2003-07-30 8:00 ` David Lang
2003-07-31 14:33 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 14:57 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-31 15:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-31 21:41 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-01 15:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-01 17:11 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30 1:40 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-30 2:35 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-30 5:22 ` Ville Herva
2003-07-30 5:44 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-31 14:36 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 16:20 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-31 16:56 ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-31 19:55 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 23:35 ` Ian Hastie
2003-07-30 6:03 ` jw schultz
2003-07-30 2:16 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-30 5:45 ` jw schultz
2003-07-28 20:19 ` Samuel Thibault
2003-07-28 20:27 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 13:02 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-29 13:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 13:56 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-30 6:14 Erik Andersen
2003-07-30 13:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-31 19:15 ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-31 21:50 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-31 20:08 Petr Vandrovec
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2003-08-03 10:40 ` Julien Oster
2003-08-04 0:56 ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-05 18:52 ` Timothy Miller
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