xiamin wrote:
> 
> I just installed the 970819 snapshot, and GENERIC-37.

What were you running before?

> Here's the problem:
> When I try and run dt, the screen clears to white, and then nothing 
> happens. I can't even telnet in from another computer.

Try redirecting stderr just to see if you get any kind of error message
that you can't see on the screen.

> I don't have X right now, I hosed /usr and had to reinstall everything, 
> and I haven't been able to find X.

The X distribution is available on ftp.netbsd.org.  Take a look in the 1.2
release area.

> Here's some lines from dmesg:
> 
> NetBSD 1.2G (GENERIC) #37: Fri Aug 21 03:04:17 PDT 1998
>     root2@c610:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/GENERIC
> Apple Macintosh Quadra 650  (68040)
> real mem = 33554432
> avail mem = 29413376
> using 204 buffers containing 835584 bytes of memory
> mrg: 'Quadra/Centris ROMs' ROM glue, tracing off, debug off, silent traps
> mrg: I/O map kludge for ROMs that use hardware addresses directly.
> adb: bus subsystem
> \^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^Hadb: adjustable keyboard at 2
> adb: extended mouse <LT02> 3-button 200 dpi trackball at 3
> adb: unknown type device, (def 7, handler 2) at 7
> adb: adjustable keypad at 15

Cool, it looks like my changes worked ;-)  What kind of
"miscellaneous/appliance" adb device do you have?

> mainbus0 (root)
> obio0 at mainbus0
> adb0 at obio0 (ADB event device)
> asc0 at obio0: Apple Sound Chip
> intvid0 at obio0: DAFB: Monitor sense 1.
> intvid0: 832 x 624, monochrome
> grf0 at intvid0
> ite at grf0 not configured
> sn0 at obio0 address 08:00:07:fc:e4:39
> esp0 at obio0: address 0x890000: NCR53C96, 16MHz, SCSI ID 7
> scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets
> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, LP240S GM240S01X, 6.3> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
> sd0: 234MB, 1818 cyl, 4 head, 65 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 479350 sectors
> cd0 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <SONY, CD-ROM CDU-8003A, 1.9a> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
> sd1 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL1080S, 630C> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
> sd1: 1042MB, 4135 cyl, 4 head, 129 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2134305 sectors
> zsc0 at obio0 chip type 0 
> zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
> zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
> nubus0 at mainbus0
> nubus0: failed to map slot 9, address 0xf9000000
> ae0 at nubus0 slot c: address 00:00:94:61:71:25, type MacCon Ethernet 32KB memory
> fpu0 at mainbus0 (mc68040)
> boot device: sd0
> root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
> PRAM: 0x33ffa968, macos_boottime: 0x33ffa95f.
> root file system type: ffs
> 
> The line about nubus failing to map slot 9 I know about, I think that 
> slot is broken.
> The ite at grf0 not configured worries me.

I've had this line for a year or more now, and it appears to have no real
affect on whether or not I can run X or use dt (I'm running X right now).
I don't think that there have been any internal video changes recently,
but I could be wrong...

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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