Comment 14 for bug 869017

Kernel team,

This default appears to be set in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c to "10*60". Would you be agreeable in changing the default to 0 for all of Ubuntu in the next release (perhaps Zesty+1)? For example we could patch it, or we could add a parameter to make it configurable (either defaulting to 10*60 or to 0), and we could try to upstream any of this.

For desktop (and "client" generally), it should make no difference as X is always running anyway.

For server, I think it makes sense for the default to always be 0. IMHO, CRT burn in concerns should no longer govern the default case, and affected users could always set consoleblank back in bootloader configuration.

For IoT, in my limited experience it probably doesn't make sense either.

Perhaps even upstream would be willing to consider a change to 0 by default?

If we don't agree to have Ubuntu's kernel do this by default, then I guess we'll need to do it at packaging level to get the parameter in by default. But I thought I'd start with the kernel default side first as it makes sense to me to change it.