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Hello,

> Hmm, I just noticed this because I didn't try it earlier. When I boot 
> the machfb kernel, sometimes, not all the time, when I reboot or even 
> if I shut the system down and bring it back up, the display does not 
> initialize in openfirmware correctly. The light show it produces has 
> to be something close to an acid trip during light show. If I boot the 
> fb kernel again, when it reinit's the chip, the display comes back. It 
> seems that OpenFirmware is expecting the chip to be in a certain state 
> at init or my hardware is just flaky.
That's weird, I didn't see anything like that, but...
- - the machfb driver doesn't attempt to change resolution at all
- - all it does is read a few parameters from the chip, set up the 
blitter and use it for scrolling and so on.
So - I don't have the faintest idea what's going on. Did you reboot 
normally when it happens or   was something funky happening so the 
blitter might be in some strange state? Was X11 running?

> http://user.dtcc.edu/~ctribo/what_the.jpg
> http://user.dtcc.edu/~ctribo/what_the2.jpg
Hmm, the stripe on the left seems to indicate a a connection problem 
between display and graphics controller, but the rest - no idea.

good luck
Michael
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