Ubuntu
kbd package

  1. Bug #381517
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 381517

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Sebastian Krysmanski (manski) wrote : Re: Cannot disable console blanking in /etc/kbd/config

I just installed "console-tools" to see whether this problem exists in this package, too. And it does. The setting "BLANK_TIME" is completely ignored and is set internally to 10 minutes. This seems to be set in the kernel (see linux/drivers/char/console.c). The "setterm" workaround works, however.

Btw: I'm using Ubuntu server. The problem exists on kernel 2.6.27-14-server as well as on kernel 2.6.28-13-server.