> I know this is a bit off topic, but our sysadmins don't believe me
> when I say that my monitor used to go into power-save mode on my
> SPARCstation 4.  In fact, they say "Sparc 4s can't put monitors in
> powersave mode".  I remember seeing the "Power Saving" amber light
> on my monitor, with my very own eyes.
[snip]
> Also, is it just in the monitor, or does the pizzabox need to send
> some kind of signal (DPMI? what is it called?) to the monitor.
> Finally, if it does, is this signal generated by hard/firmware or
> does software like X need to be configured.

Well, if it is anything like the monitors and video on the SS20, to 
turn the monitor off you have to kill the horizontal and vertical
synch signals to the monitor. This has to be done by the video
adaptor in the pizzabox, and thus by the video driver. On the SS20,
I've figured out how to turn it off, but not back on :-)
I don't think NetBSD supports this yet, unless I'm missing something...

--Aaron