How can I turn off screen?
None of the answers here helped me. I tried sudo vbetool dpms off
but that failed silently and the screen remained on.
This is a headless Ubuntu server installation on a laptop. I don't want screen turned on all the time as I access this server via SSH remotely.
edit: solved it by using izx's answer in here This is not what I was looking for but at least I have nothing on the screen now.
xrandr
andxset
won't work butsudo vbetool dpms off
should. Did you try that? What error messages did you get? Please edit your question and add more details so we don't give you the same answers.vbetool
shouldn't need an X server. What error messages did you get, if any?