On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, paul beard wrote:

> On Monday 17 December 2001 07:18 pm, Bill Studenmund opined:
> > At least with the 8600 (and I thought all of that vintage) the timings
> > weren't right to get the video to work at boot. So there are needed nvram
> > patches.
>
> from what I have read this is only an issue with the /chaos/control machines.
> mine has a PCI card rather than onboard video, and that's where my problem
> lies. Another helpful poster has suggested my card may not grok OF (a
> possibility since this isn't the original card). I'll investigate that later
> tonight.

Ahhh... My bad. Never mind.

dev into it, and try "words". That should show you the methods on the
card. If there is nothing there, then it probably doesn't support OF.

> I'd like to get X working as well: XF86setup isn't available, I notice. So
> I'll dig into the FAQ and see what I need to do there.
>
> And finally, I learned today the netbsd/macppc isn't supported in the newer
> SANE releases (like 1.0.5 and 1.0.6). Has anyone had any luck with them?

SANE? Sorry, I've been at this a while, so Standard Apple Numeric
Environment comes to mind. :-)

Take care,

Bill