At 4:49 PM -0400 4/26/01, Louis Gerbarg wrote:

:)> Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
:)> 	have one report of problems getting into Open Firmware -- need more
:)> info
:)
:)I have no idea if NetBSD works, but I used to have a TAM. The problems is
:)that its OF will only boot on at 640x480 and it has an 800x600 fixed
:)frequency screen (640x480 under Mac OS is done in software).
:)
:)Besides that you need to toggle a few magic values to turn on the
:)display/set the brightness. You can either do that with cpoke in OF, or
:)put some code in the kernel to do it.
:)
:)I have not done this in years, and don't have one handy to track down the
:)info, but I think that this might be helpful.

Yes, very.  Thanks for the info!  I guess I'll put a note that it probably
has to be set to use a serial console.  That's easier than figuring out how
to get Open Firmware to deal with the 800x600 screen.  I'm assuming that
the TAM will even boot NetBSD based on the fact that it has the same
motherboard architecture as other models that work.

  -- MW