Post #389771

2026-02-24 15:51 UTC

@jgoerzen You mean now e.g. setting consoleblank=X will really just produce a black screen after X seconds? (I don't think this is related to dri and kms, at least not only that. I'd have to check but I think some of the setups of mine where the linux virtual console could trigger screen sleep with older versions were using dri and kms? I had to do a hardware change and getting this set up was one of the things I've been postponing. Maybe I should look into this soon...)

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@njsg@mementomori.social 2026-02-24 15:58

@jgoerzen BTW, I just noticed that in my notes from when I had to start setting consoleblank in some system (possibly from c. 2019--2020?), I have this: «Despite what the commit message regarding this change [1] says, consoleblank *does* trigger DPMS. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4199f5eb8096d63828f7333fa45650a7b0a99ed » But it's likely I was missing something else that happened to make this also trigger DPMS. Notes also say "setterm --blank" seem to change the same value for all VTs, or at least triggers the same behaviour I was looking for.

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@jgoerzen@floss.social 2026-02-24 15:59

@njsg@mementomori.social @jgoerzen@changelog.complete.org Yes, exactly. If you have more insights, I'd welcome them!

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