Subject: Re: Problems with a PMac 7600
To: Aaron Jackson <jackson@msrce.howard.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/29/1999 10:01:20
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Aaron Jackson wrote:

> Get the LinuxPPC1997* file from ftp.aaronjackson.com.  There is some
> examples of changing screen resolution.  Maybe somebody could port the
> vmode program to NetBSD?  I'm not much of a programmer, so I haven't

That might be good. :-)

> looked at the source code, but I think it is just writing values to
> nvram.  Also, you could set the screen resolution in macos and it
> *should* also carry over into NetBSD, unless something in the boot
> process resets the nvram.

It does carry over. MacOS is why my Blue G3 is in 1152xbig mode. :-)

Note: One time I switched monitors, and got only 640x480 until I booted
MacOS. OF noticed that the monitor changed, and rolled back to a safe
setting.

Take care,

Bill