Comment 2 for bug 869017

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James A. T. Rice (james-r-ubuntubugs) wrote :

Hi Fabio,

This isn't about xorg - this is about the text mode screen console that the kernel provides.

It seems to be driven by drivers/tty/vt/vt.c , and adding consoleblank=0 kernel parameter disables the behaviour. I'd suggest making that the default for the server edition.

Thanks
James