Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> writes:

> Further study reveals that the system's power management capabilities
> are recognized, but that apparently, once the system decides to blank
> the screen, it is never told to unblank.

On my machine, if I have power management in the BIOS enabled and the
screen blanks it will not unblank when rebooted.

This I believe is a bug in the BIOS.  NetBSD, unless running X, is not
even aware the screen is being managed by the BIOS I don't think.

--Michael