turning off screen

[Janina Sajka]

You may find something specific to your machine that will do this, and
it may be more reliable.

In my case I've used Thinkpads for years, so expect to achieve this via
FN+F7 toggling.

hth.

Janina

prayner at unimelb.edu.au writes:
> 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.
> I'm not seeing anything in the audit log when I try to run vbetool now
> so I'm at a bit of a loss.
> Anyone else seen this recently?
> The machine is a DELL E4310 running FC13
> thanks in advance
> Peter
> 
> 
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