display power

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Warren Block wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, abc at ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net wrote:
>
>> can someone tell me how to stop FreeBSD (4.11) from
>> turning off my monitor (after whatever preset timeout
>> there is)?
>
>
> vidcontrol -t off
>
> Unless you're running X, in which case I know it can be done, but 
> can't remember how.
>
This works for me.

xset -dpms; xset s off

And back on with the reverse:

xset +dpms; xset s on

--Alex