hasn't Thomas Graichen said ? ...
> i need some advice from someone with more PROM experience than me or
> docs about the 5000/200 PROM commands and working principle :-)
> 
> while trying to find out if my cfb in the 5000/200 is working or
> broken (without having any monitor connected to it) i also tried to
> set the console via setenv to g (which i thought to be _g_raphics)
> ... and since then i never again saw the ">>" prompt on my serial
> console ... :-( (which sems to be clear if i set console to g - bad
> idea of me ...)
> 
> ok - now how to recover from that situation ? - i have kbd & mouse
> connected and was thinking that simply typing "setenv console s" will
> give the >> back to my serial console - but it looks like beside the
> fact that i don't have any monitor being able to sync on green to
> connect to the pmax right now also the keyboard seems to be broken - i
> did'nt get the >> prompt to the serial console ... :-(
> 
> can anyone here please help me out of this situation ? - is there any
> fallback to serial console trick - of will it fall back to serial if i
> remove the cfb card from the tc slot ?
> 
> a lot of thanks in advance
> 
ok - i simply solved it by loaning a sync on grenn capable monitor and
using it as console then (the prompt was there :-) - also the solution
for the problem below was the not connected monitor before - now -
with monitor i don't get the error at powerup and the x server works
fine

thanks for any help

t

> t
> 
> p.s.: btw. here is my problem with the cfb card - does anyone here
>       know what this means ...
> 
> i'm trying to find out if my cfb in the 5000/200 is ok or broken -
> the problem - until now i don't have a monitor to which can do sync
> on green :-(
> 
> everytime i turn on the 5000/200 (using derial console) i get:
> 
>   ?TFL: 0/ptrn (3, exp=90, act=98) PMAG-BA
> 
> i have so far no docs found about the meaning of that warning - do you
> have any idea ? - is the cfb broken - or can this result from the
> not connected monitor ? - the problem is - if i try to start Xcfbpmax
> then i get:
> 
>   CPU memory write timeout error at 0x1f000000
> 
> and it panics ... do you have any idea where this might come from - do
> i have to change anything else then inserting the cfb into the tc slot
> (any jumpers or so i have overseen) ?
> 
> ... oh and Xmfbpmax doesn't panic btw. - but the card is definitely a
> cfb:
> 
>   >>cnfg 0
>    0: PMAG-BA  DEC      V5.3a    TCF0  (CX -- d=8)
> ...
>   cfb0 at tc0 slot 0 offset 0x0 (1024x864x8)
> ...
> 
> -- 
>   thomas graichen - graichen@rzpd.de graichen@OpenBSD.org graichen@FreeBSD.org
> 
>   perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when
>       there is no longer anything to take away    antoine de saint-exupery
> 
> 


-- 
  thomas graichen - graichen@rzpd.de graichen@OpenBSD.org graichen@FreeBSD.org

  perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when
      there is no longer anything to take away    antoine de saint-exupery