[Udpcast] Console blanking

[D Teed]

I'd think either solution could work.  I've included full
static compiled binaries before.  Get the source for setterm, edit the
makefile so it provides static compiler flags, and build.
Add it to the initrd with genromfs.

You can make your own kernel by starting with Alain's minimal
kernel config on the UDPcast web site.

2.4: http://udpcast.linux.lu/current/udpc-config24.txt
2.6: http://udpcast.linux.lu/current/udpc-config.txt

If you are copying contents of initrd and using genromfs to make
a new one, the existing modules are not under /lib/modules as
usual.  They are under mod/lib/modules and that is where
you should replace with yours.  If I remember correctly,
I believe I only replaced the content under
mod/lib/modules/{kernel.version}/kernel and left as
original all of the modules.* files.

--Donald Teed


On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Lasse Riis wrote:

> Hi
>
> The setup I'm udpcasting to is a lot of boxes with no keyboard attached.
> So when udpcast blanks the console after a while I have no way of
> following what's going on on a particular node. Of course I can always
> check the sender, but I'd like to have a view of all the nodes aswell.
>
> Usually I use "setterm -b 0" to achieve this. But the setterm command
> doesn't seem to be included in busybox. Can I add the regular command if
> I check it's lib-dependencies with ldd?
>
> Or do any of you know of another way to achieve this. I thought about
> disabling APM in the kernel maybe, that might do the trick. However I'm
> not sure how I compile a new kernel for UDPcast
>
>
> Lasse Riis
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