Laptop Screen Won't Dim/Sleep During Clone

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Laptop Screen Won't Dim/Sleep During Clone

Forum: Open Discussion

Creator: Mark Hart

Created: 2023-04-24

Updated: 2023-06-09

Mark Hart - 2023-04-24

I created a live Clonezilla from the zip file and it boots perfectly. I dropped to a shell and viewed /etc/systemd/logind.conf but I didn't see an option for enabling screen dim/sleep. I saw HandleLidSwitch but I thought if I enable that it might just put the laptop to sleep if I close the lid. If it would only put the display to sleep that would be great.

Any help would be appreciated! I have a Dell Inspiron 7610 and none of the screen controls work in Clonezilla.

Thanks!!!

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Steven Shiau - 2023-04-27

When running Clonezilla job, we set:
setterm --blank 0 --powersave off
You might be able to overwrite this in another console. Not sure.
In the future, we'd better to have a boot parameter to control this. E.g.,
ocs_screen_blank="no"

Steven

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Steven Shiau - 2023-04-27

BTW, the reason we force to have screen not sleeping is that you might not be aware it's cloning, then just turn it off...

Steven

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Steven Shiau - 2023-06-09

In testing Clonezilla live >= 3.1.1-5 or 20230608-*, if ocs_screen_blank="no" is assigned in the boot parameters, the screen won't blank.
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Please give it a try if you can, and let us know the results. Thanks.

Steven

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