Disable screenblanking on VT switch

ConnorBehan · 2009-01-16 20:59:29

I have two monitors and each is being driven by a different video card. When I boot up, the AGP card in my laptop drives the LCD in my laptop. When I startx, X takes over my PCI video card and external LCD as indicated in my xorg.conf. I can switch back to the console just fine with Ctrl+Alt+F{1-6} but when I do that, the external LCD goes blank. My internal LCD still shows a console and I can use it but I'd like X to persist so I can still see what's on the other monitor when I'm not using it. Does this make sense? Another problem is when I hit Ctrl+Alt+F7 to go back to X, X returns but the console I was looking at goes blank (obviously). Ultimately I'd like to be able to see a console not in use while X runs on the console that is in use. Does anyone know how this can be accomplished?

Arch Linux

#1 2009-01-16 20:59:29

Disable screenblanking on VT switch

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