Blanking screen when in console

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:17:36PM EST, Julio Biason wrote:
> 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...

I remember seeing that, however I am using ACPI.

Luke