Re: turning off screen

[Samuel Thibault <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>]

prayner unimelb edu au, le Wed 13 Oct 2010 22:53:50 +1100, a écrit :
> I've recently changed computers and linux version. 
> I've been using sudo vbetool dpms off
> for years to turn off my screen.
> It's no longer working
> Looking around the bug reports there's much talk of setting the
> selinux boolean mmap_low_allowed 
> but this already appears to be set true.

Well, I would avoid going the vbe way as it's complicated. A much
portable way is

setterm -blank force

Samuel