Re: Beep or visual signal after booting OpenBSD/sparc64

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Brad wrote:

> On Thursday 17 September 2009 21:19:28 Ron Wickersham wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Hans Ivers wrote:
>>
>> ---snip---
>>
>>> b) machdep.led_blink=1
>>>
>>> no way to make it works. I've enabled this option in /etc/sysctl.conf
>>> or within the root shell (sysctl -w machdep.led_blink=1) without any
>>> visible result.
>>
>> after changing option in /etc/sysctl.conf is not effective until next
>> boot...
>
> He made it pretty clear he tried it manually via sysctl(8).
>
>> check man sysctl, on OpenBSD there is no -w option, unlike Solaris or
>> Linux, etc.    use sysctl machdep.led_blink=1 and it may work (does
>> on other Ultra-SPARC boxen.
>
> OpenBSD used to have the -w flag and still accepts the flag.

Yeah, force of habit, I still type it.

I think I do have a V100 or V120 that I can check in person tomorrow.


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Jameel Akari