No, the backlighting is not off.  I still see half a line of an error 
message
from OFW on the screen, and it looks bright.

    -- Lennart

Charlie Allom wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:50:24AM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm trying to boot netbsd on my flat panel iMac, but as soon
>>as the kernel starts printing the display goes black, except for
>>some keyboard related error message at the bottom.
>>I think the boot succeeds, because I managed to reboot by blindly
>>typing things to the keyboard.
>>Has anyone else seen this?
>>    
>>
>
>Make sure your LCD isn't getting dimmed by default. On other LCD
>equipped macs this happens on boot and you need to turn the brightness
>up. I hope your brightness buttons on the mac keyboard work :(
>
>http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#black-lcd
>
>Regards,
>  C.
>  
>