Subject: Re: Color X of IIsi
To: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/29/1997 14:59:58
> Onboard video on the IIsi _does_not_work_in_color_ at this time. It's
> being worked on, though, so perhaps in the next month or so (if we're
> lucky ;-). However, if you have a NuBus (or PDS-slot on the IIsi, I
> guess) based video card in you IIsi that supports 8-bit color, chances
> are that it will work using Taras' color video LKM module.
>
> As for _onboard_ video showing up as a card, I don't quite know why it
> would, especially considering the fact that it is RAM-based (i.e. video
> memory is mapped to the first bank of physical RAM, IIRC).
I think the reason it shows up as a "card" is so that all of QD only
has to deal with video drivers on NuBus slots. The internal stuff shows up
as either slot 0 or slot 15 (I think I've seen both, though not under the
same circumstances).
Take care,
Bill