Re: Shark memory & video

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

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Hello,

On Aug 23, 2008, at 8:51 PM, John Klos wrote:

> I thought I saw somewhere ages ago that some people had gotten more  
> than 64 megs of memory recognized on their DNARD Sharks. Is this true?

Yes, both my Sharks have 96MB.

> If so, how?

Sufficiently recent firmware can apparently deal with a few specific  
64MB DIMMs in the leftmost slot ( left as in away from the  
mainboard's edge ). For some reason I never got these modules to work  
in the other slot, no matter what's in the left one. I heard of one  
person who got two 64MB modules to work, don't have any details  
though. If you want I'll send you pictures of the 64MB modules that  
work for me.

> Also, can this Shark running NetBSD 4 use a video mode which would  
> work on the TV output? I don't see anything like grfconfig or  
> iteconfig...

We have no support for TV output on rev. 5 but XFree86's chips driver  
which you'd use on rev. 4 ( I made that work a while ago in - 
current ) may still have support for it. Probably bitrotted though.

have fun
Michael

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