Subject: Re: DayStar Turbo 040
To: Greg Troutman , Marco van de Voort <marcov@dragon.stack.nl>
From: Kazuyuki Inanaga <happyday@pp.iij4u.or.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/30/2002 12:51:22
Hi,

My IIci runs at 50MHz with Daystar Turbo 040 (clockuped) and
"NuBus Video Card" on NetBSD -current.

If I pulled out that NuBus Video Card from it,

>It goes into a video hell (white screen with about a dozen black lines)
>straight out of the  booter...

Try to put faster NubBus Video Card on your IIci such as "Futura II LX".

Enjoy,
kazu


At 1:59 AM -0700 02.9.29, Greg Troutman wrote:
>Marco van de Voort wrote:
>
>>I bought a Daystar Turbo 040 today (33 MHz, Euro 10, it was still
>>shrinkwrapped), and I immediately swapped it with my Daystar 030/50Mhz in my
>>IIci with 1.6. It worked.
>>
>>Note that this is a 68040 in a 68030 system.
>>
>>I felt like reporting it, since it isn't explicely named on the supported
>>hardware page, though there is a mention of Kevin Radke working on it.
>>
>I have a 33 Mhz 68040 Daystar that DOES NOT work.  When I swap it into a
>iici running with a
>50 Mhz 030 Daystar, it doesn't even make it to the boot screen as it
>goes into a video hell
>(white screen with about a dozen black lines) straight out of the
>booter... It woks great under MacOS
>though!!!  I have another 50 Mhz 030 Daystar that DOES NOT work in this
>system, but it has an
>FPU chip onboard.  Maybe that's a problem?  Again, works great under
>MacOS, just not in
>an otherwise tight NetBSD box... This is all pretty much hit and miss I
>think...