Raspberry Pi screen blanking

I wanted the (text)-terminal to blank on activity, so the HDMI-connected display will turn off.

# vi /etc/rc.local

then insert

setterm -blank 5 -powersave hsync -powerdown 1

to take changes effect:

# shutdown -r now

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