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I installed a minimalist distribution for my mom to use, it uses rungetty to autologin and an init script that just does 'startx'. Everything works great but when she goes to shutdown, it drops back to the console for a while before turning off (Old PC).

Is there a way to pipe or silence all output to tty1/console. When X closes, the screen should be blank and then turn off.

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I think this question works better over at superuser.com. Doesn't it? – Magnus Hoff Aug 25 '09 at 20:27
Did not know of that sister site, thanks – James Aug 25 '09 at 20:40
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Haven't tried it, but you should be able to add "console=/dev/null" to the kernel parameters in grub or lilo. If not, try console=ttyS0 to redirect to the serial port (assuming you don't have anything connected to the serial port, maybe a non-existant serial port would be safer such as console=ttyS7).

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Can she not just ignore the output?

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She already said she does, it just bugs me that I don't know how to solve this. I considered using vbetool to do a dpms off but that seems like over-kill. – James Aug 25 '09 at 20:26
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