From: Egbert Eich Make error message about FBIOBLANK missing less prominent but more telling The FBIOBLANK ioctl is not present in some fbdev kernel drivers. This however is not a huge problem. This don't mark it as error in the log instead give more information on the possible cause. Index: hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c =================================================================== --- hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c.orig +++ hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c @@ -858,9 +858,10 @@ fbdevHWDPMSSet(ScrnInfoPtr pScrn, int mo return; } + /* Novell Bug #146462 */ if (-1 == ioctl(fPtr->fd, FBIOBLANK, (void *) fbmode)) - xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_ERROR, - "FBIOBLANK: %s\n", strerror(errno)); + xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO, + "FBIOBLANK: %s (Screen blanking not supported by vesafb of Linux Kernel)\n", strerror(errno)); } Bool @@ -875,9 +876,10 @@ fbdevHWSaveScreen(ScreenPtr pScreen, int unblank = xf86IsUnblank(mode); + /* Novell Bug #146462 */ if (-1 == ioctl(fPtr->fd, FBIOBLANK, (void *) (1 - unblank))) { - xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_ERROR, - "FBIOBLANK: %s\n", strerror(errno)); + xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO, + "FBIOBLANK: %s (Screen blanking not supported by vesafb of Linux Kernel)\n", strerror(errno)); return FALSE; }