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- From: dwallach@zonker.cs.berkeley.edu (Dan Wallach)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.bugs
- Subject: Re: 4.0.{4,5} blankscreen(FALSE) doesn't reliably unblank screen
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 05:36:12 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Dec14.230140.8608@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec14.230140.8608@news2.cis.umn.edu> slevy@noneuclid.geom.umn.edu (Stuart Levy) writes:
- >Calling blanktime(0) alone worked under 3.3 and (I think) 4.0.1.
- >But, when we upgraded to 4.0.4, it stopped working. Apparently if the
- >display was already blanked, blanktime(0) would *not* re-enable it, and we'd
- >spend hours recording only to find black video. So I changed that to
- > blankscreen(FALSE);
- > blanktime(0);
- >but this was (sometimes? always?) ineffective -- the screen would remain blank.
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- Try using the xset command:
-
- xset s noblank
-
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