On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:14:15PM -0700, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> > I've been using this machine largely as a headless NetBSD machine, so I'm
> > wondering if there's any way to simply disable the screen via sysctl or
> > something else? (X11 is out of the picture, if messes up something fantastic
> > with this model)
>
> I don't know about the console (never managed to turn the screen off
> there either), but have you tried the iBookhacks option (now macModel)
> for the radeon video driver in X11? I've had good results after
> enabling that option.
>
> See http://wiki.netbsd.se/macppc#iBooks_with_Radeon_cards_.28at_least_G4.29
I've tried this, but something incredibly funky happens to the screen (it's
like black water is filtering into the grayish framebuffer) and then I can't
get back to the console.
I'm not sure if this is because of my OFW boot-command from here [1] or not:
setenv boot-command ." hello" cr " screen" output boot
Without that command however, the machine never seems to drop into the console
on boot :(
[1]
http://blog.julipedia.org/2010/01/installing-netbsdmacppc-on-mac-mini-g4.html
Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
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