Subject: Re: more than 8bpp on old world G3 machines
To: NetBSD-ppc <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Xavier HUMBERT <xavier@xavhome.fr.eu.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/09/2001 19:08:21
In message <20011109121517.GC7323@vulcanised.adc.rmit.edu.au>,
Charlie Allom wrote:
>does anyone have any recent information on this issue? last I heard
>the video card on these oldworld g3's was a bit borked?
The problem is not the videocard, the problem is OpenFirmware. On these
machines, IIRC, the video uses OF's framebuffer, with is small (640*480
or 832*640, 8 bits) and sloooooow.
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