Subject: Re: Color X of IIsi
To: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/28/1997 17:07:55
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Colin Wood wrote:
> Onboard video on the IIsi _does_not_work_in_color_ at this time. It's
> being worked on, though, so perhaps in the next month or so (if we're
> lucky ;-). However, if you have a NuBus (or PDS-slot on the IIsi, I
> guess) based video card in you IIsi that supports 8-bit color, chances
> are that it will work using Taras' color video LKM module.
Well, not quite :(
At least one card, the E-Machines Futura-SX does not (yet) work with
Taras's video-lkm code. But I'm working on it.
I suspect that there'll likely be problems with many _accellerated_ video
cards such as the -SX. These cards, under MacOS, do a lot more than just
put pixels on the glass; they also tend to intercept lots of MacOS system
calls (most of which, fortunately, NetBSD/Mac doesn't need) and they also
make a lot more calls to more esoteric portions of the Mac ROMs than
"simple" frame-buffer cards.
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