Re: [RULE] Install report for slinky 0.3.4

[Martin Stricker]

Michael Fratoni wrote:

> On Sunday 15 December 2002 06:52 pm, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> > Minor inconvenient: this is probably a fault of my laptop, not of
> > the installer, but since it was doing fine, I switched to my
> > desktop to write this report and read email. When I looked again
> > at the laptop, the screen was black.
> 
> I can add the setterm binary to the installer and see if
> 'setterm -blank 60' prevents this. (60 minutes is the max, I
> believe.) if I remember correctly, the console will blank after 5
> minutes of inactivity? I'm not sure, honestly. The installer
> currently does nothing to change this behavior. I agree, it is a
> problem to have the console blank during install.

Shouldn't pressing [Shift] make the screen with all it's contents
reappear? Or does the installer terminal work different from the
terminal I have after install?

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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