In message <Pine.NEB.4.30.0206091638360.27325-100000@paper.durnsford.net>
          Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Peter Bell wrote:
> 
> > What is strange here is that I use an AKF60, which *is* capable of
> > running at 1024x768 and, indeed, does so at the RO desktop.
> > Unfortunately the monitor is not capable of syncing with the NetBSD
> > 'interpretation' of 1024x768, even when I have given it the correct
> > mdf.  So what happens is that the bootloader screen (with the green
> > border) is perfectly okay at 1024x768, but as soon as the kernel is
> > booted the display becomes garbled.  This is true both of the install
> > kernel and the full kernel from sets.  I have reverted to 800x600,
> > which works perfectly well.
> 
> Hmm. There's a monitor definition file compiled into the kernel, or at
> least some mode definitions are. It appears to default to "Taxan875+LR".

Hmm, well that won't help, will it?

> Try uncommenting the AKF60 line and recompiling the kernel.. see if that
> makes a difference.

Okay, one day I'll work out how to do this.  As will be clear from my
next posting (and from my time spent on the stand at Wakefield), I'm a
complete novice at this bsd stuff!

-- 
Peter Bell - peter@bellfamily.org.uk