hi folks... long time no post... just saw this in my hpcmips_list 
inbox...

the only practical way for me has been to set the brightness and 
contrast in WinCE *before* booting NetBSD... setting seems to carry 
through on the resulting session...

http://www.tux.org/~bball/z50

On Mar 17, 2006, at 1:52 PM, pete hilton wrote:

>                Having got netbsd working satisfactorily on my Z50, I 
> have been
> looking into how to control the brightness/contrast on the LCD.