Console blanks and leaves me in the dark

[Magnus Eriksson <magetoo%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

I just plonked in a netbsd-5 kernel (from two days ago) with the console 
at vesafb, and now it seems that when the screen blanking kicks in, I 
can't get it back, short of starting X.

On top of that, the blanking interval is unreasonably aggressive (i.e. 
short), so shortly after boot I was looking at a blank screen with no 
obvious signs of life at all.

A standard text console didn't have the same problem.


I'm guessing this might be the culprit, since I ran with this commented 
out in a NetBSD 4 kernel without seeing anything similar:

options         VESAFB_PM               # power management support


Is this option known to be broken?  I can't remember why I had it 
commented out before, but I guess there was a reason.


MAgnus