From: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
To: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next V2] tty: Disable default console blanking interval
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:32:30 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703222010220.2307@pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1490195240-16372-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com>
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Tim Gardner wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869017
>
> Console blanking is not enabling DPMS power saving (thereby negating any
> power-saving benefit), and is simply turning the screen content blank. This
> means that any crash output is invisible which is unhelpful on a server
> (virtual or otherwise).
>
> Furthermore, CRT burn in concerns should no longer govern the default case.
> Affected users could always set consoleblank on the kernel command line.
Does screen blanking save some power by disabling the cursor blink?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-23 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-22 13:50 [PATCH linux-next] tty: Disable default console blanking interval Tim Gardner
2017-03-22 14:14 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-03-22 14:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-22 15:07 ` [PATCH linux-next V2] " Tim Gardner
2017-03-23 1:32 ` Scot Doyle [this message]
2017-03-23 12:42 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-03-24 2:27 ` Scot Doyle
2017-03-23 2:06 ` [PATCH linux-next] " Adam Borowski
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