On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:40:40PM -0500, Erik A. Osheim wrote:
> I am running NetBSD 1.6 on a 233 MHz Bondi iMac.
> 
> Everything is running well, but I am planning to use the machine as a
> webserver, and am sort of worried about the screen. Currently, I have it
> running in reverse-video (white text on black) 

Hey, how'd you do that? oops see below.

> and have a shell script
> slowly printing ascii characters to keep the screen moving, but really, I
> would like to have some way to turn the screen off while the machine is
> running, to avoid burning/damaging the display. Normally I would unhook
> the monitor, but in this case, that's obviously not feasible.

I like this for scrolling characters:

http://www.elvin.dstc.edu.au/projects/ematrix/index.html

that actually mean something.

Run X11 with a minimal wm (ratpoison?).

> Also, on a more minor note, does anyone know of any program or settings
> that can be used to reverse the video of the console? Currently, if I start
> and then kill xdm, the video is reversed (white text on black), whereas
> normally it is black text on white.

I'd like to know too. That's my old trick.

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