When running Linux on some old iBooks, I noticed that the consoleblank kernel parameter doesn't seem to work correctly.
This means that without an X11 environment running, there are console characters just burning into my LCD constantly.
I looked for a console blanking program, but surprisingly I didn't find much. I wanted a program which just blanked the console, and used zero CPU (i.e. no fancy ASCII art screensavers).
So I asked an AI to write one! Here is the result: https://github.com/cellularmitosis/ttyblank
You can run this manually, or configure your first tty to run it automatically at boot (see the README at the above URL for SysVinit and systemd instructions).
I've tested this under debian and gentoo.
This means that without an X11 environment running, there are console characters just burning into my LCD constantly.
I looked for a console blanking program, but surprisingly I didn't find much. I wanted a program which just blanked the console, and used zero CPU (i.e. no fancy ASCII art screensavers).
So I asked an AI to write one! Here is the result: https://github.com/cellularmitosis/ttyblank
You can run this manually, or configure your first tty to run it automatically at boot (see the README at the above URL for SysVinit and systemd instructions).
I've tested this under debian and gentoo.
