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Re: Turning off the screen on an iBook G4



On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, John Klos 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)
> 
> Have you tried just setting the backlight to the lowest setting? On
> many Mac laptops, this turns off the backlight.

The backlight keys on the keyboard actually don't seem to do anything, is ther
a means of controlling the backlight from OFW?

Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
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