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: 02/03/2001 01:26:51
My ROM version is $77D.28F2

if that means anything.  Sustem profile also indicates the power mac
series is 7500/7600, WGS 8550.

I will check my mother board.

Jim Nelson


Chris Tribo wrote:
> 
>     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.