On 05 Jan, 2006, at 23:21, Kailash Sethuraman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 12/27/05, Dion van der Grijp <dvdgrijp@mbox3.singnet.com.sg> wrote:
>
>> As far as screenblank(1) is concerned, don't hold your breath. I've
>> also been asking about the non-functional screen blanker for years --
>> to no avail. For some reason -- which escapes me -- having a screen
>> blanker that actually works properly appears to be one of the lowest
> I did take a stab at fixing screenblank a long time ago, however I
> pushed it down my priority list ( gave up) as it did seem that there
> is no simple fix due to the way wscons works.
> The thread is here :
> http://news.vejas.lt/article.php? 
> id=5123&group=gmane.os.netbsd.devel.userlevel#5123
>
> This was further discussed a while later at
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2005/05/06/0004.html
>
> Perhaps an intrusive fix is really needed to get this functionality
> going, as I have noticed that people request it again and again.
>
> Regards,
> Kailash
>
>

Thanks for sharing that; it confirms in part what I suspected.

-dvdg
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