[H-GEN] Turning off laptop display

[Geoff Shang]

Hi everyone,

My flat mate has an oldish compaq (I think) laptop with Debian Sarge on it. 
She wants to know if it's possible to turn the screen off so people can't 
look at what she's writing.  Since she is blind, she has no need for it 
herself.

Is this possible?  Is this something specific to particular laptops or is 
there a standard way to do this sort of thing?

If there isn't a laptop way to do it, is there something that might achieve 
the same result, say setting the foreground colour to the same as the 
background.

She only uses console aps at this stage.

Geoff.


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