rob2021

Thanks Nico - that worked! Much appreciated. For the record, I installed as per your instruction, re-set consoleblank back to 0 (as this was making the console blank even when trying to actually use it!), rebooted, configured the timers via the GUI and all is well. thanks again!

Nope, my boot.ini looks like this: # Boot Args setenv bootargs "root=${rootdev} rootwait rootfstype=${rootfstype} ${condev} ${amlogic} no_console_suspend fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 elevator=noop hdmimode=${hdmimode} cvbsmode=576cvbs max_freq_a53=$ {max_freq_a53} max_freq_a73=${max_freq_a73} maxcpus=${maxcpus} voutmode=${voutmode} ${cmode} disablehpd=${disablehpd} ${bootsplash} cvbscable=${cvbscable} overscan=${overscan} consoleblank=1" Please don't take my comments as criticism, I did not intend them as such. Rather, I was attempting to be clear on the support (or lack of) power management within Armbian, if it's there great, if it's not there, fine - just wanted to be clear that's all. As with any community effort, I fully temper expectations and respect the time of the contributors. Appreciate your help on this.

Thanks - I've made that change, it appears that only takes effect on initial boot, so if the following happens the screen will remain on indefinitely: 1. boot 2. blank 3. hit a key 4. screen on forever Is power management not part of Armbian? Surely DPMS should be handling display off after x minutes (and other things such as HDD spin down..)? I'm new to Armbian so apologies for simple questions.

So, I'm running Armbian on my N2+ uname -a Linux odroidn2 5.9.14-meson64 #20.11.3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 11 21:02:17 CET 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux I haven't been able to find a way to have the screen turn off for power saving, am I missing something? I am not booting to desktop, I am booting to console. Even if I leave it without logging in, the display stays on indefinitely... Any ideas?