Blanking screen when in console
Matthew Garrett
mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Nov 2 00:29:03 UTC 2004
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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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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