At 5:36 PM -0700 10/25/97, Gabe Ricard wrote:
>Ok, I went back into MacOS , rebooted without extensions, made sure the
>monitor was in 1 bit mode, and booted into NetBSD. Still dt just blanks
>out the screen. However I CAN execute shell commands. Apparently my old
>shell is there listening to what I type in, or maybe it's dt, I don't
>know. But I can do stuff, so I just su to root and reboot. I tried typing
>cmd-1 to get to the first terminal, nothing happened. I had run dt as 'dt
>-n 1' so there should have been a terminal open. I tried to open a new
>terminal using cmd-o, and basically went through all the various commands
>for dt. Nothing worked.
>
>Im using a Quadra 700, with the -current snapshot, and the GENERIC-45
>kernel. I have 20MB of ram, and my graphics card is a Super Mac Thunder
>or something along those lines, my monitor is a 19" Super Mac in case
>that has anything to do with this. But it really shouldn't because I ran
>NetBSD on this machine before and used dt. I've made no hardware changes
>to it since then.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?

I had a similar (unresolved) problem on my Q700.  Does `dmesg` output a
line containing "grf0"?  If not, then X and dt support is still broken.


Steve

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