Subject: Re: X colorkit kernel booting on SE/30
To: Nicholas Riley <nriley@tiac.net>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/07/1996 17:12:56
> I tried to get the X colorkit to work on the a SE/30 with Micron XCEED
> Color 30 video card.  Given the similarity of my system to Ken's I sort of
> expected it to work, but it wouldn't boot.

Yeah, I would expect it to work, too... Hmmm...

> Here's what a kernel that works displays on boot:

And this kernel's version being what?

> adb: bus subsystem
> adb: extended keyboard at 2
> adb: 100 dpi mouse at 3
> adb: relative positioning device (mouse?) (0) at 15
> 	[rather weird, because I only have two ADB devices connected]

No, not really weird.  It's possible if you have a multi-button mouse
which emulates two ADB devices and uses the second virtual(?) devices
to send the extra-button status.

> and with the new .grf one:
> 
> Non-system RAM (nubus, etc.):
>      Log = 0xf9000000, Phys = 0xf900000, Len = 0x6000000 (100663296d)
>   no internal video at address 0 -- videoaddr is 0xf9000400
> Done.
> (...)
> mrg: I/O map kludge for old ROMs that use hardware addresses directly.
> adb: bus subsystem
> got following HwCfgFlags: 0xfc00, 0xffffdfff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff
> mrg: Not setting up egret.
> mrg: ADB interrupts enabled.
> 	[hang]

Hmmm...

> what am I missing?

No, I have no idea...

ken