Subject: Re: Screenblank on mac68k?
To: Donald Bruce Stewart <dons@cse.unsw.edu.au>
From: Jon Fullmer <jon@jonfullmer.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/27/2003 18:06:58
Yeah, I was trying to find macfb0 as well.  No such luck.  I've heard people
mention "dt" as well.  I downloaded it, but I don't see any function for
blank screens.  I'm just trying to save the SE/30's screen from burn-in.

 - Jon

on 9/27/03 5:17 PM, Donald Bruce Stewart at dons@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote:

> jon:
>> Has anyone out there gotten screenblank to work on a mac68k machine running
>> NetBSD.  I?m running 1.6.1 on an SE/30, and every time I try to run it, it
>> gives me:
>> 
>> Sep 27 11:38:00 hans screenblank: Can't set video on `/dev/ttyE0'
>> (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
>> Sep 27 11:38:00 hans screenblank: No frame buffer devices, exiting
>> 
>> I can't seem to find any reference as to what the appropriate frame buffer
>> device would be.  Does this program simply not work on mac68k?  Is anyone
>> using it, and if so, how?
>> 
>>  - Jon
> 
> Well, I though about /dev/macfb0, but no such device seems to
> exist, despite being in the dmesg.
> 
> I didn't look into this too hard, as you can get the same results
> with "dt": just switch to a blank terminal screen.
> 
> -- Don
>