[ltp] screen going blank on Thinkpad 760XL

[Tino Keitel]

On Friday, 15. June 2001 02:10, Hamish Kibblewhite wrote:
> Hi,
>        does anyone know how I can *STOP* the screen going blank on a 760XL
> running Linux.
>
> Have tried a bunch of things so far.
>
> Latest bios.  tpctl commands. ...
> xset, setterm...
>
> Haven't hit the magic combination yet.  I want the screen on at all times
> as this is a screen I want to use as a monitoring screen.  If I am unable
> to just glance at it from time to time to see what the information from the
> running application is... then the 760XL isn't going to be much use to me.
> regards,

This seems to be the BIOS power management.

Try using "tpctl --pm-mode-AC=manual" to use manual power management settings 
when using AC power and "tpctl --pm-delay-suspend-or-hibernate-AC-manual=0" 
to disable the standby/suspend timer for this power management setting, since 
the standby mode will switch off the display.

I don't know if it works, since I did it with the ThinkPad Configuation 
Utility for Win95.

Tino

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