Luke Mewborn wrote:

> screenblank is unlikely to do the right thing on wscons
> displays talking to VGA screens in NetBSD 1.5.2.
> Support for the screenblank ioctls in the vga driver
> was only added very recently to NetBSD-current.
> So, even if we solved your wskbd0 error
> (which could be done with a NetBSD-current
> screenblank with '-i /dev/wskbd' (or some other device),
> it's not going to blank a VGA screen for you
> under NetbSD 1.5.x :-/

Thank you for the information. But is there any other way
to save my monitor? I don't have X installed on this
system so xscreensaver would not work.

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Martin Wittwer