[arm-allstar] Pi Terminal Sleep

[James Hause]

Thanks Charles, I went ahead and added the consoleblank to the end of the
line, and it works !!
Much appreciated !

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 9:04 AM, James Hause <hausejd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the information.  I executed the command cat
> /sys/module/kernel/parameters/consoleblank and it did return with 0.
> To be sure I am clear on how to enable, the current contents of the
> /boot/cmdline.txt file has the following:
>
> root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1
> selinux=0 plymouth.enable=0 smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0
> kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 elevator=noop
>
> I would then add to the end of the line consoleblank=600 to get it set for
> 10 minutes?  So the line in the file would be:
>
> root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1
> selinux=0 plymouth.enable=0 smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0
> kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 elevator=noop consoleblank=600
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Charles Powell <5h3dx.zinga at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You can check console blanking with the command 'cat
>> /sys/module/kernel/parameters/consoleblank’  to tell you whether
>> blanking is on or off. It will return ‘0’ if off.  To enable in
>> /boot/cmdline, the command is ‘consoleblank=xxx’ where xxx is the number of
>> seconds delay before the screen goes off.   This is a kernel parameter.
>> /boot/cmdline must remain a single line.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Charles - NK8O
>>
>>
>> > On May 25, 2018, at 6:15 AM, James Hause via arm-allstar <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks for the quick reply.  I did the change, but monitor still does
>> not
>> > blank.
>> > Here is what the config.txt has after I updated.
>> >
>> > # See /boot/overlays/README for all available options
>> >
>> > gpu_mem=64
>> > initramfs initramfs-linux.img followkernel
>> > hdmi_blanking=1
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 1:06 AM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
>> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Jim,
>> >>
>> >> Now sure why anything would have changed.
>> >>
>> >> Try adding -
>> >>
>> >> hdmi_blanking=1
>> >>
>> >> to /boot/config.txt should fix the issue. Don't change anything else in
>> >> that file.
>> >>
>> >> Let us know if that works.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> *73 Doug*
>> >>
>> >> *WA3DSP*
>> >>
>> >> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 6:30 PM, "James Hause via arm-allstar" <
>> >> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Not that this is a big deal, but I have noticed one thing since I did
>> the
>> >>> last update today.
>> >>> On my hardware configuration, I have a 19 inch monitor attached to the
>> >> Pi.
>> >>> When I boot up my node, I would login, and get to the Admin screen.
>> >> After
>> >>> a few minutes of inactivity, the screen would go blank, and I would
>> just
>> >>> press a key, and the screen would come back.
>> >>> After I did the update today, and I login in,  I get the admin screen,
>> >> and
>> >>> all is good, except now the screen does not go blank after minutes of
>> >>> inactivity.  Not that this is a big deal, but don't want to burn an
>> image
>> >>> on my display, so my question is do I need to change a setting
>> somewhere
>> >>> now ?
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