Amiga NetBSD ScreenMode problem.

[Steve Gillott <steve%moohorse.thenet.co.uk@localhost>]

Hello World!

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm on the brink of tearing my 
hair out

I've decided to take the plunge and install NetBSD on my Amiga. 
Unfortunately, I've hit a problem right at the very start. I'm using 
a UK PAL A1200 OS3.0, with a Samsung SyncMaster15Gli running on 
DblPAL. I've had to mess around with MonEd in order to get it to work,
and the same with the DblNTSC mode, which has a massive black border 
around it.

I've got the point in the installation where I've set up my partitions 
happily, and installed the inst-121.fs to swap.
Here's the problem. Once I start up NetBSD by typing:

loadbsd -b netbsd

the screenmode changed immediately to NTSC, which I can't see on my 
monitor, and I can't use on the TV, because I've only got a PAL TV.
So, instead, I use the -A switch in order to run it under AGA:

loadbsd -A -b netbsd

Which although something is displayed on my monitor, it's all gibberish
and had big black diagonal stripes moving up the display. Basically 
it looks just like the standard DblNTSC monitor driver did before I 
hacked around with it in MonEd, in order for me to get it to display 
something.

Is there any way I can get around this, preferably by promoting the 
screen to DblPAL HiResNoFlicker? I've tried using the mode promotion 
utility on MCP, but that doesn't work either.

Until I get a display I can see, I can't install NetBSD. Please help!

I've had a suggestion that I recompile the kernal, but I can't see a 
display to do that, and besides, I wouldn't know what I was looking 
for.

Sorry to have intruded, but I'm rapidly running out of places to ask!


Thanks in anticipation,
Steve.

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Steve Gillott                              steve%moohorse.thenet.co.uk@localhost
Bath, UK.                     http://www.thenet.co.uk/~moohorse/steve/
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