Subject: Re: more summer of code fun
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@netbsd.org>
From: J. Scott Kasten <jscottkasten@yahoo.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/06/2005 22:00:41
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> At 20:36 -0400 6/4/05, Michael wrote:
>> I tried to get DRI to work on macppc ( iBook G4 / Radeon ) didn't get 
>> anywhere though, it's kind of hard to debug kernel panics that happen 
>> while X is running without a serial console.
>> There's an S900 with a Voodoo3 sitting here too, but I guess that will be 
>> harder to do since we'd need glide3 as far as I remember.
>
> Is there some reason you can't boot a mac with serial console and still use 
> X11 on an FB/GPU+keyboard+mouse?
>

It depends which model as to whether the mac even has a serial port.