Yes, that's what I figured, since it also reported the 130 as not having
a backlight while it wasn't working. If anyone knows exactly how the
call decides that there is a backlight present or not, it would help
trace where the broken connection is.
Mark.
>> If anyone actually knows how the NOS decides whether the Newton has a
>> backlight or not, this could be useful in figuring out what goes wrong
>> with the light.
>
> There's a system call stored in ROM you can use to query that. The
> system call obviously doesn't return something burnt into the ROM, but
> queries the actual hardware. I have a 120 which has a ROM donated by a
> dead
> 130, and in this machine the system call correctly reports that the
> device
> does *not* have backlight.
>
> Frank
>
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