Hello,

just something I noticed while glancing over this thread,
could also be completely irrelevant. See below.

Rudi

Michael Lorenz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Nov 26, 2006, at 05:44, dieter roelants wrote:
> 
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>>> so, finally the missing pieces to allow using accelerated display
>>>> drivers as console on macppc are in place. Please try them and report
>>>> success or failure.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a current running on my iMac which has a
>>> machfb0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0: ATI Technologies 3D Rage Pro (rev.
>>> 0x5c)
>>> machfb0: 16 MB aperture at 0x81000000, 4 KB registers at 0x80881000
>>> machfb0: 6144 KB SGRAM 98.924 MHz, maximum RAMDAC clock 230 MHz
>>> mach64_get_mode: 1024 5152 5248 1312 768 769 772 800
--------------------------^^^^^^^^^----------------------

Either bit 12 has a special meaning or this modeline has a problem.

>>> machfb0: initial resolution 1024x768 at 8 bpp
>>>