Blanking screen when in console

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:21 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> Hi all
> When running onlaptop battery, I notice that X blanks the screen after a 
> short amount of time. However, this doesn't happen in the console, and 
> when the console screen eventually blanks, the display backlight stays 
> on.
> 
> Is there any way to completely blank the screen and turn off the 
> backlight in the console?

Not easily, I'm afraid - the Linux console doesn't support using DPMS.

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