> >  and it blanks the screen fine, but fails to unblank on mouse or keyboard
> >  action. I have to type (blind) kill -TERM `cat /var/run/screenblank.pid`
> >  to get the console back.
> 
> Please try this:
> 
> * in /etc/ttys, change "/dev/console" to "on" and "/dev/ttye3" (and friends)
> to "off", then "kill -HUP 1". (screenblank still needs to run on /dev/grf3)

 Yep, that does the trick. Thansk!