Re: Hunting the ahc boot-time panic

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:28:04 -0500 (CDT)
"John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Michael wrote:
> 
> > What font they default to depends on which fonts you compile into the
> > kernel. Leave out Gallant, add something like VT8x8 and you should
> > have all the screen real estate you need ;)
> 
> So, that would be (for a differential config that includes GENERIC):
> 
>    no options FONT_GALLANT12x22
>    options    FONT_VT8x8
> 
> So the fonts are in sys/dev/wsfont/blah.h.  While I see an obvious
> relationship to "options FONT_GALLANT12x22".  There are several
> "vt220*8x8" options.  Which one does "FONT_VT8x8" select?

Umm, none ;)
I didn't look up the exact name, only remembered that there is at least one 8x8 
font and a whole bunch of others that are smaller then 12x22.
Pick whichever, they should all work.

> On a related note, is there any way to convince the machine to use
> a higher resolution without resorting to booting MacOS (since I
> no-longer have that available)?

Depends on the graphics hardware. Some cards have firmware that supports DDC 
and that way pick up whatever your monitor likes. Others, together with the 
mainboard's firmware store which video mode MacOS used and initialize that on 
power up. Then, if none of that applies, a few drivers support video mode 
programming ( voodoofb, machfb and radeonfb for example ).
Also, it might be worth checking if your graphics card's firmware provides any 
OF commands to switch modes.
dev screen
words
should tell you.

have fun
Michael