How to take screen off stand by??

[otheos]

I do not run X on this box so the screen shows the console! (RH6.1)

After a few minutes of mouse/keyb inactivity the screen goes to stand by. The console still displays the syslog verbose but this will not wake the screen up.

I want to be able to log in remotely and echo messages on the console so that I can give a simple order to the personel there.

At the moment I have a script that will play a voice message ("Attention") and print the order on the printer.

I would like to do the same, but instead just echo "DO THIS" >/dev/console, wake up the screen and display the message on the monitor.

The reason is that personel is computer illiterate and away from the the computer working. The phone is usually occupied so I devised this method and works quite well. At the moment I need somthing like 40 orders a day, so that's 40 pages wasted a day.

Is there such a command to take the monitor off stand by?

Thank you for your time.

[mychl]

look in /etc for a powerd.conf file or something like that, look through it and maybe you can stop the monitor from ever going to standby

[otheos]

Thank you for your help.

There is no powerd.conf or similar in /etc.

I liked the idea though of preventing the monitor form going to stand by in the first place.

Any idea on that?

Thank you again.

[mychl]

There has to be a setting somewhere that is acting as the "timer" for standby. Could even be in your bios... Check your distro's documentation, ther has to be something somewhere.

Post back if you find anything, I'd like to know as well. :cool:

[PLBlaze]

You might want to read man setterm and play with it ether to disable the standby or addjust the timer value.Hope this helps.

[DMR]

Also check for "apmd", which is, I believe, the advanced power management daemon. It will probably be fired up by one of the startup scripts; just comment it out.