On Thu, 25 May 2000, Isobel wrote:

> Guy Santiglia <robin5153@yahoo.com>  kakimashita=A0:
>=20
> > Who would know more about that?  this open firmware is a mystery to me.
> > I booted from  The MacOS 9 CD and it came up in a higher resolution,
> > then rebooted into BSD and it was still 640x480. :(

Guy, check the Linux FAQ's. I think they have it.

> > Guy
>=20
> On my G4, under OpenFirmware :

Your OF version is much newer than Guy's. A LOT of things work on the G4
firmware which don't on the older ones.

>     dev screen
>=20
>     words
>=20
>     show-modes
>=20
> [a list appears showing lots of nice video modes, all disabled except for
> the current one, set in MacOS...]
>=20
>     set-mode XX
>=20
>         error : mode is disabled

Someone (was it you?) described how the enable-mode command will enable
modes.

Take care,

Bill