Subject: Re: 2.0RC5 on ibook G4
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/06/2004 14:09:05
Hello,

> > > Only another question: setting wscons to YES on /etc/rc.conf seems to be 
> > > useless, am I wrong?
> > 
> > wscons isn't fully supported on macppc - no multiple consoles or ANSI colours.
> 
> Those aren't supported, no (they're generally only supported on
> systems that natively use VGA text mode). However, those are far from
> the only features of wscons, so calling it "not fully supported" is
> wrong -
Ah, semantics :)

> it just doesn't have some features that the underlying
> hardware doesn't provide. (Color I'm less sure about, actually -
> because I know that does work on some non-VGA wscons ports).
NetBSD/macppc's ofb has support for colour and multiple screens, but that's forcibly turned off for some reason. 

have fun
Michael