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

[Krzysztof Walkiewicz <bars0@op.pl>]

Aioanei Rares wrote:
> 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.
I found a half-solution:

I added to my .bashrc file:
alias von='sudo vbetool dpms on'
alias voff='sudo vbetool dpms off'

This is a half-solution, because I need to type my password (after 15') 
while my screen is off  - because of 'sudoers' file.