On Dec 14, 2007 11:16 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:

Another message from the "when did this stop working?" camp:

I've had the following in my /etc/rc.local for a while:
  setterm -blank 10
  setterm -powersave powerdown
  setterm -powerdown 15

Now what this does is put the monitor into the black-but-still-glowing
mode after 10 minutes, then shut it off after 15.

I have no idea when, why, or how, but it stopped working.
I use this on 2 machines that don't run X, so using 'xset' is not an
option, but I *think* xset works fine.

Does anyone else know much about this? The internet is fairly silent
on the topic