Subject: Re: screen blanker, curses
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 08/23/1999 20:12:00
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 11:29:35AM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
>
> > I added FBIOCGVIDEO support for Amiga in NetBSD-current.
> > If you want screenblank in 1.4 or 1.4.1, you'll find a kernel patch in
> > ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/amiga/misc/screenblank.patch
>
> I downloaded and compiled netbsd-1-4-PATCH001 with this patch.
>
> First, netbsd-1-4-PATCH001 works out of the box with the Spectrum. Finally!
>
> The screenblanker works, sort of. I'm running it as
>
> /usr/sbin/screenblank -d 300 -f /dev/grf3 (or should this be /dev/console?)
>
> 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)
Regards,
-is