[solved] console "screen saver"

[gcb]

i'm still without KDE doing everything on the console.

I noticed one extremely annoying behaviour:

after some time, the console will blank out.

but the screen remains on. the LCD backlight is still blasting full.

so, is there a way to:
A) stop the console from blanking
B) properly turn off the monitor?

for now i think A would be way more useful.

update:
finally managed to tune my search terms enough
`setterm -blank 0`

[invasivenorman]

On this issue of blanking, I found this: http://alexis.m2osw.com/console.html

There might be more to turning off the backlight, though. Hrm.

I also have my suspicions that this might not work for every console driver.
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gurgle