Re: How to turn the screen off, while working in console

[Aioanei Rares <debian.dev.list@gmail.com>]

Krzysztof Walkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem: lately i work just in console (to do my job I do not 
> need to run the X, and this is quite old laptop), but I cannot figure 
> out, how to turn the screen off (lets say after 5 minutes without 
> touching the keyboard).
> Does anybody have an idea, how to do that?
>
> Chrir
Some BIOSes allow you to do that, AFAIK. Other than that, I remember an 
option in NetBSD's /etc/rc.conf (different startup system compared to 
Linux) which allows one to do that. There must also be a way to 
accomplish this in a SysV-based machine.