Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.5 on 7500 with 604
To: None <ctribo@del.net>
From: James Tuman Nelson <jimtnelson@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/02/2001 10:20:28
Interesting. I'll have to check. Where on the mother board does one look?
Jim Nelson
Chris Tribo wrote:
>
> on 2/1/01 2:35 PM, James T. Nelson at jnelson@wiai.com wrote something like:
>
> >> ofb0 at pci1 dev 11 function 0: Apple Computer Control
> >> ofb0: 640 x 480, 8bpp
> >> wsdisplay0 at ofb0: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
> >
> > This is where mine differs. See below.
> >
> >> Apple Computer PlanB (undefined subclass 0x00, revision 0x01) at pci1 dev
> >> 13 function 0 not configured
>
> It is entirely possible that you have two different revisions of the
> Motherboard, and hence two slightly different ROM revisions and/or Video
> controllers. Care to check what the ROM version is with TechTool or Apple
> System Profiler? Should be $7xDxx or something along those lines. I wonder
> if PlanB is the "Platinum" video chip that doesn't work on a few other
> boxes, or even possibly Valkrye *shudder*... A trip to the motherboard might
> yield some clues. If I had to guess, I'd bet that one of these motherboards
> is using a Cirrus Logic chip, and one is using a BrookTree [Bt] (Now
> Conexant) chip. I wouldn't put it past Apple...
>
> Chris
>
> --
>
> Murphy was an optimist.