Re: G5 powermacs

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> I see the "OF_Quiesce finished" printout and the first few lines
> of the kernel messages, but once it has printed the line which
> starts with "genfb0", the screen blanks for me and (apparently)
> never unblanks.  I should perhaps note that the G5 I use has
> nvidia graphics.  Hmm, what happens if I comment out "genfb" from
> the kernel config? (It'll probably bomb later when it finds it
> has no wsdisplay?)

"Not exactly."  What did happen was however that after the
"OF_QUIESCE finished" message was that no output was printed on
the screen.

So ... what's the magic to make this machine not turn off video
after genfb0 is probed?

> A few tens of seconds later, the fans in the machine appear to
> spin up to full speed.  Since the screen is still blank, I have
> at this point no way to interact with the system, so I had to
> turn it off again with a long press on the power button.

This behaviour continued, of course.

Regards,

- Håvard