Subject: Re: Open Firmware issue....
To: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
From: Niels S. Eliasen <nse@ruc.dk>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/11/2007 21:59:43
Hi Michael

Den 11/05/2007 kl. 20.26 skrev Michael Lorenz:

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> Hello,
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> On May 11, 2007, at 09:32, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
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>> Now the only kind missing is that the screen stays 95% pitch- 
>> black....
>> I can see "something" vaguely happing on the LCD... but it not  
>> next to impossible to read!
>
> Hmm, looks like the firmware didn't bother to enable backlight  
> then. We have code to deal with that ( just play with the  
> brightness buttons, on 2400/3400/3500 they should Just Work ) but I  
> guess I'll have to expose a userland knob for that too.
Well.. that would be logical.... but the funny thing is that the  
brightness button does _not_ work when booting like this....
However .. for my purpose I'm 95% happy ;-) as the Powerbook now do  
auto-boot .....

>
> have fun
> Michael
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