On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:59:43AM -0700, Matt Dunford wrote:
> > Has anyone ever gotten netbsd to work on a Performa 636CD before? I'd just
> > like to know before I put some considerable time into salvaging this machine.
> >
> > Problems that may come up are the 636's IDE hard drive, unlike other
> > Performas.

Absolutely. You'll need an external scsi drive (or two) for sure.
Leave the internal 250Mb ide to MacOS. It may even work now with
68LC040, but that's not well tested (probably not).

> I ran NetBSD 1.3.1 for a long time on exactly that model.
> 
> I had to have the hacked Quadra kernel to do X (that may be in the
> GENERIC kernel by now, though, I haven't been following port-mac68k
> very closely)

I don't recall *needing* to hack the 1.3.x kernel to do X, but that
would have been one of the options. With 1.4.1, the color X server off
of ftp.macbsd.com should work fine on the internal video, within the
limitations imposed by the amount of video memory available. You are
limited to 16-bit Direct Color at 640x480, or 8-bit Static Gray (or
Mono) at 600x800. The EASC sound isn't working yet, either, nor is the
com slot ethernet, but PDS ethernet is reported to work.