On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 02:52:00PM EDT, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> Allow me to ask a stupid question.

Permission granted.

> You see, when that happens, whatever that was on the screen goes away.
> Nor was most of what was on the screen at that point stored in dmesg or
> in any /var/log/* file, not can it be ShiftPgUp'ed to anymore.
> 
> So I would like to stop the blanking just one time to get a look at what
> was on the screen at that point.

You could _try_ hitting CTRL-S / CTRL-Q.

cj

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