Blanking screen when in console

[Julio Biason]

2004.11.02, Matthew Garrett:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:21 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > 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.

In the kernel configuration, under the APM section, there is an option
"Console blanking using DPMS" (or something like that). I just don't
know if Ubuntu kernel is compiled with this option...