On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at  3:52am, Ilpo Ruotsalainen wrote:
> Subject: Re: Newport 24-bit works, except for cursor

Päivää Ilpo,

> On Sat Jan 10 2004 at 19:24:16 -0600, sgimips NetBSD list wrote:
> > I can confirm that the 24-bit newport display works great... EXCEPT...
> 
> Whoa, nice.
> 
> There's a known gotcha though. If you have a newport and use serial
> console (ie. even PROM doesn't touch the board) you get a hang during
> boot. I haven't been able to test this (due to lack of correct serial
> adapter, curse SGI for using such a crappy connector) but my guess would
> be it hangs in the resolution detection. Working on this.

Hmm... Doesn't hang for me.  I just booted via serial console and it went
all the way into multi-user, probing the newport as before.

I'll move on to my other INDYs and the Indigo 2 to check that all newports
work fine.

-scott