Subject: Re: invisible NetBSD
To: Graham J Lee <leeg@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk>
From: Anthony de Almeida Lopes <guerrilla_thought@gmx.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/02/2005 18:23:27
Oops. Didn't see first sentence in your 2nd paragraph. Tired.


On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:59 -0800, Anthony de Almeida Lopes wrote:
> Just turn up the brightness button. I just had the same problem :)
> 
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 23:59 +0000, Graham J Lee wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I installed 1.6 from CD (the CD I happened to have lying around :-) 
> > onto a Wallstreet.  This all worked, I set the load-base and real-base 
> > in OF, and boot from the hard drive (boot ide0/disk@0:0).  It gets (as 
> > far as I can tell) all the way through, but before it reaches the 
> > login: prompt the display becomes extremely dark.  So dark as to be 
> > unusable; the text is black on slightly-less-than-black.  I can only 
> > just see that the text says something along the lines of:
> > 
> > wd0[a-p] ddb halt reboot
> > 
> > The brightness/contrast buttons on the 'book are of no use; how can I 
> > [1]change the brightness [2] proceed from here?  The console used for 
> > installation (the standard OF console) is clear and bright, and indeed 
> > when I return to OF this is still the case.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Graham.
> > 
>