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Ubuntu server system (no X installed) that runs several networking daemons. It's been headless for years but I recently attached a monitor to it and installed some cli monitoring utilities (glances and pysensors) as this server is also my NAS gateway.

Been on this horrific easter-egg hunt searching for how-to disable the screen-blanking / powersaver mode for the terminal.

I'm hesitant to remove acpi as a package because of unknown/future interdependencies.

Somewhere, there's some obscure config setting that will prevent the monitor from blanking. I've disabled the sleep option in the monitor's firmware - and, of course a key-press on the kb will awaken the screen...but not sleeping at all is optimal.

thanks...

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did you try the answer to this thread:

How do I disable the blank console "screensaver" on Ubuntu Server?

In short it says to add the parameter consoleblank=0 to your kernel command-line at boot-time.

Hope that helps.

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