Subject: Re: Random comments on installation and booting
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
From: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/09/2000 11:49:09
> > If you start up X it will clear all those extra pixels.  Of course X 
> > is a touch unreliable on macppc.
> 
> Unreliable, or not what you typically want?
> 
> I've not seen reliability issues, just that it's rather stupid about
> color re-use, and it's 8-bpp.

On my Blue G3, the kernel hangs sometimes in the ofw colormap changing
calls (meaning every time you map a window, there's some chance of the
machine wedging. Great fun.)

This may be another one of those fun kernel size-related things,
because I used to have a kernel where it didn't happen, even though it
did with earlier and later kernels.

-- Dan