On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Peter Bex wrote: > 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 I've tried this, but something incredibly funky happens to the screen (it's like black water is filtering into the grayish framebuffer) and then I can't get back to the console. I'm not sure if this is because of my OFW boot-command from here [1] or not: setenv boot-command ." hello" cr " screen" output boot Without that command however, the machine never seems to drop into the console on boot :( [1] http://blog.julipedia.org/2010/01/installing-netbsdmacppc-on-mac-mini-g4.html Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance -------------------------------------- Jabber: rtyler%jabber.org@localhost GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler Identica: http://identi.ca/dero Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero Blog: http://unethicalblogger.com
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