Subject: Re: Colorkit results
To: Stephen C. Brown <sbrown@shellx.best.com>
From: Scott Jann <smj@acm.cs.umn.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/28/1996 09:45:41
I have a mac IIcx with a variety of cards, when my Asante ethernet car is
in there I see the same as:
> My results differ from Aaron's results.
> Upon boot, I experience a hang at the line that says:
>
> nubus0 at mainbus0
>
> I then wait for several minutes and nothing seems to happen. I can't break
> into the debugger or anything.
with just my "Macintosh Display Card" - a nonaccelerated apple 24-bit
card, when it probes the grf0, the screen goes grey, and I see nothing
more..
with just the "Toby Frame Buffer" in there, things work smoothly..
> The video card is an apple one, but I'm not sure if it is the same one that
> Aaron has. It is labelled as a "Macintosh II video card" and Slots says it
> is a "Display_Video_Apple_TFB". Other functioning kernels identify it as:
>
> grf0 at nubus0: 640 x 480 monochrome QD compatible (Toby frame
> buffer card) display
>
> I'm not sure why it is identified as "monochrome" as it functions perfectly
> well in 8-bit color on the MacOS side.
but it was set to monochrome (B&W) when you booted
>
> If you have any updates, questions, etc. please let me know.
Scott Jann "Life is a pinball game."
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