Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.1 on A3000/Picasso II? (fwd)
To: None <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: George Harvey <fr30@dial.pipex.com@am061.du.pipex.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 03/29/1996 09:43:08
(I think I sent this to the wrong address first time, apologies if I didn't
and you see this twice)

Hi Thomas,

> Hi!
> 
> I recently
> tried to upgrade my well-working NetBSD 1.0
> (with ECS console and Picasso-X-Display) to
> Version 1.1.
> 
> Unfortunately, all kernels I tried fail
> to create a working Picasso console... I
> just get a blue Picasso screen with no
> text on it, although the boot process
> goes on in the background.
 
Yes, been there, seen that.

[ snip ]

> QUESTIONS: - Has anyone in this list encountered
>              similar problems or any idea how to
>              fix them?
>            - Is is possible that the White-Screen-Problem
>              already fixed in 1.0 returned in 1.1?
> 
> Thomas Corte                  //

There are some patches available to fix it, the file I used was called
"ariadne_picasso-src11.tar.gz" and could be found on ftp.uni-regensburg.de
(I can't remember which directory, I think it may have been in 'incoming'
at the time but it has probably been moved since then).

I now get normal console operation and X-windows runs fine with the Xcl
server.

Hope that helps,


    George Harvey                   | Amiga A3000T, Picasso-II,
    email: fr30@dial.pipex.com      | MFC-III, AmiTCP, NetBSD