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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.

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I guess Ubuntu server means we are talking console only. Check the manpage to setterm and try the following command:

setterm --powersave powerdown
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