What can I do if the screen goes blank after a few minutes?

If you have a screen saver running, you may want to turn it off. In text mode, the kernel will "screen-save" your system unless you use:

setterm -powersave off -blank 0

Otherwise, if you hear disk drives speed up or other sounds, this is probably APM kicking in. Disable APM from starting at boot time by logging in as root and typing ntsysv. Then dese...