laptop screen blanking wont stop!

[Douglas J Hunley]

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dep wrote:
> can you switch to a different virtual console (alt-ctrl-f2, for
> instance)?

yes, but it's black too. as long as I know what I'm typing, it's usable ;)

>
> i've seen this with a bad XF86Config -- if you're booting into rl5
> (after "shame on you!") this could be a problem. there are also issues
> of framebuffer support or lack thereof and so on. but it all comes down
> to whether you can get ro a plain old login prompt.

I can change back to initdefault:3 for debugging.
bad XF86Config? define bad...
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die_if_kernel("Kernel gets FloatingPenguinUnit disabled trap", regs); -- 
2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c
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