On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, 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) 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.
>
> Are there any good solutions to this problem? I had hoped that I would be
> able to put the display to sleep with a command, and then use another
> command to awaken it.

What chipset does it have? I'm using XFree86 4.2 on my Beige G3, and with:

        Option          "dpms"

in the monitor section and a blank time in the server section, the
computer turns off the video after a while. Sounds like what you want. :-)

Take care,

Bill