Re: consoles blank since MOL 0.9.52


Subject: Re: consoles blank since MOL 0.9.52
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (bh40@calva.net)
Date: Thu Oct 26 2000 - 04:25:01 MDT


> I thought I'd follow up on this on with what I'm seeing from time
>to time as well. What happens is mol starts up fine, everything's
>running great. After a few minutes though (particularly if its just
>sitting idle) the screen blanks. The only way I can get the screen to
>come back is to switch back to a text console then back to mol.

What X server are you using ? Some version of XFree forget to disable
blanking when they are in background.

> FYI, I strongly suspect that the 6 mol processes you are seeing
>are actually six threads using kernel threads. These show up in the
>process list as if they were full processes but in reality they're
>not.



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