Re: original iMac problems

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Michael wrote:

> So X doesn't get things right either? It should at the very least get its 
> hash pattern all over the screen, in the right colours, and you have enough 
> video memory to do 1024x768 in 24bit. Now we're officially entering twilight 
> zone territory.
> The reason why I asked this is this - I suspect we're not initializing enough 
> of the drawing engine, and on other hardware this is no problem because the 
> firmware did it for us. I wanted to see if X initializes it so machfb can 
> work right after X exits.

That machfb works if I first let MacOS X touch the hardware would seem
to support this.

> Any chance to mail me the Xorg.0.log?

Grab it here:

  http://bobdbob.com/~jdbaker/nbsd-debug/bondi-069908-machfb-Xorg.0.log

It is rather unremarkable until the very last line.

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