Re: Turning off the screen on an iBook G4

[Peter Bex <Peter.Bex%xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:14:15PM -0700, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> I've been using this machine largely as a headless NetBSD machine, so I'm
> wondering if there's any way to simply disable the screen via sysctl or
> something else? (X11 is out of the picture, if messes up something fantastic
> with this model)

I don't know about the console (never managed to turn the screen off
there either), but have you tried the iBookhacks option (now macModel)
for the radeon video driver in X11?  I've had good results after
enabling that option.

See http://wiki.netbsd.se/macppc#iBooks_with_Radeon_cards_.28at_least_G4.29

Cheers,
Peter
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