How to disable console screen blanking?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On RHEL-5 below command worked to avoid the console blanking:

    setterm -powersave off -blank 0
    

    It no longer works for RHEL6. Console here means the default VGA screen output, which comes from IPMI redirected KVM.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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