Christophe Lermytte wrote:
> Is there a way to turn off the screen without having X installed?
Oh, dummy me,
of course it is; I've just tried to run
# vbetool dpms off; sleep 3; vbetool dpms on
from the console and it worked just fine.
Note that you'll be blind if you just run vbetool dpms off, though.
Use with caution... ;-)
Hope that'll help,
Regards,
vencik
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