Forwarding on request from Colin Wood:

From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Experimental X11R6 color kit release (fwd)
To: ivanenko@ctpa03.mit.edu
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 15:29:32 -0500 (CDT)

Taras (and anyone else who might have a clue)-

Here is part of a message I sent to Ken about my experience trying the 
new kernel and X server.  Hopefully, it might provide you with a little 
more data:

> 1) The kernel will not boot with my ethernet card installed (I tried 

Ken felt this was probably due to changes in the ethernet driver and not 
really a problem with the grf driver.  I'll check it out soon, though.

Here is the real problem, though:

> 2) The new kernel initializes the graphics device and the screen appears 
> to go completely blank.  It never comes back on console or using dt (but 
> I doubt dt would run too well anyway).  If I start X, (I kinda typed very 
> carefully in order to log in and start X without being able to see) 
> something finally shows up.  The title bar of my one xterm shows up 
> slightly against the black background.  It is a shade of blue.  After 
> some experimenting, I discovered that only light shades of blue (like 
> cornsilk and cornsilk2) and gray85 show up.  I managed to create an xterm 
> with a gray85 background which enabled me to look around and see what was 
> happening, but there is little else I can add.

Here's what Ken had to say about it:

Hmmm.... this is very strange...  It suggests setting CLUT entries
doesn't work on your video card.  Maybe there's a conflict between
it and the internal video, but your dmesg looks fine to me... hmm...

Finally, here's a copy of the dmesg from that boot:

NetBSD 1.1B (GENERIC) #7: Sat May  4 12:11:10 EDT 1996
    kenn@branford-asy-1.rutgers.edu:/home/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/GENERIC
Apple Macintosh IIci  (68030)
real mem = 29360128
avail mem = 25321472
using 204 buffers containing 835584 bytes of memory
mrg: 'Mac IIci/Q700 ROMs' ROM glue, tracing off, debug off, silent traps
adb: bus subsystem
Got following HwCfgFlags: 0xfc00, 0x    773f, 0x       0, 0x  b036c0
mrg: Not setting up egret.
mrg: ADB interrupts enabled.
adb: keyboard at 2
adb: 100 dpi mouse at 3
mainbus0 (root)
ite0 at mainbus0 (minimal console)
adb0 at mainbus0 (ADB event device)
ser0 at mainbus0
nubus0 at mainbus0
grf0 at nubus0load_current_mode: mode=80 data=0 page=0 base=fd000020
: 640 x 480 monochrome QD-compatible (Mac II High-Resolution Video Card) 
display
ncrscsi0 at mainbus0
scsibus0 at ncrscsi0
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, LP80S  980809404, 3.3> SCSI2 
0/direct fixed
sd0: 80MB, 921 cyl, 4 head, 44 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <QUANTUM, ELS170S, 4.2> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 163MB, 1536 cyl, 4 head, 54 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd2 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <CONNER, CP3040A-40mb-3.5, 2.31> SCSI1 
0/direct fixed
sd2: 40MB, 1026 cyl, 2 head, 40 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd3 at scsibus0 targ 5 lun 0: <QUANTUM, LIGHTNING 730S, 241E> SCSI2 
0/direct fixed
sd3: 699MB, 3658 cyl, 4 head, 97 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd4 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <QUANTUM, LP105S 910109405, 3.1> SCSI2 
0/direct fixed
sd4: 100MB, 1219 cyl, 4 head, 42 sec, 512 bytes/sec
ncr96scsi0 at mainbus0 not configured
sbc0 at mainbus0 not configured
asc0 at mainbus0 Apple sound chip.
fpu0 at mainbus0 (mc68882)
floppy0 at mainbus0 not configured
Changing root device to sd3a.
PRAM: 0x318c1a8e, macos_boottime: 0x318c1a82.
load_current_mode: mode=83 data=0 page=0 base=fd000020
load_current_mode: mode=83 data=0 page=0 base=fd000020

Thanks for all your work on this one!  Hopefully it will be working for 
more people (including me) very soon.

Later.

-- 
Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX