At 2:42 PM -0800 2/1/01, James T. Nelson wrote:
>will take a look at stripping the System Disk patches to see if that helps.
>You mentioned 2 patches.  I only saw one.  Do you have the URL's for both?

Look in 
<http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/of105patch.htm 
l> in the Guru Method section.  It gives you the text for both of the 
patches that I know are useful.  The FAQ also has a new one-page 
tutorial on nvedit which looks nice.

How useful depends on your hardware.  I have a 7500 and an 8500 that 
don't really need the video patch, though they are more consistent 
with it.  I have a second 8500 that just doesn't work without it at 
all.  My 7500 seems to need the wBoot patch about 50% of the time 
when booted directly from power-up and the other two run MacOS a lot 
or aren't fully set up yet so I can only tell it's not needed after 
the disks have spun up.

Good luck.

Oh yes:  the 1710 should make a good PC monitor if nothing else.


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