Suspend on my laptop does not turn the screen off

[Ognjen Bezanov <ognjen@mailshack.com>]

Hi all,

running debian on Dell Latitude C610 and got ACPI working, its all good 
ecept for one thing, when i go into standby the screen does not turn 
off, it just stays on with the text "stopped processes 
|====================================...."

the computer does go into standby (i cant use the PC before i bring it 
out) but the screen stays on, and i cant turn it off. What can i do to 
fix this? i want the screen to turn off when the computer goes into standby.

Note that with suspend, the screen does turn off, so its just with 
standby (and yes, the first few times i did it the screen did turn off 
when it went into standby)