On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Steve Quint wrote:

> 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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> 

Yes, it does, this is what it says regarding the video card I'm using.

macvid0 at nubus0 slot e: SuperMac Thunder/24 v1.16
macvid0: Unknown video card ID 0x2cb -- Not installing interrupt routines.
macvid0: 1024 x 768, monochrome
grf0 at macvid0
ite at grf0 not configured

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