Subject: Re: Screenblank on mac68k?
To: Jon Fullmer <jon@jonfullmer.com>
From: Donald Bruce Stewart <dons@cse.unsw.edu.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/28/2003 09:17:24
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