On Wed 19 Dec 2007 at 01:20:02 +0000, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>  A huge help here would be if you could test this on 4.0, and possibly a 
>  3.1 + ACPI kernel also. Would give us a rough idea where to start looking, 
>  as I know this did work for me at one point in the distant past..

I think it never worked right any time that I tried it in the past, but
here are the results with these kernels.

With netbsd-GENERIC.gz from 4.0 the same thing happens. If you leave it
going for a while, this effect to the screen looks rather scary, like
the computer is breaking. (Of course, it is, in a way, if the RAM is
getting Alzheimer).

Also (I think that was with -current too), the fan spins down but that
takes a few seconds before it happens. When I press a key, the screen
restores itself and the fan spins back up (but the OS remains frozen)

With netbsd-GENERIC.MPACPI.gz from 3.1: init dies -> panic. The init is
of course from my fairly -current userland. I expect though that it
would fail in the same way.

>  Jared
-Olaf.
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