Subject: Newish TiBook 800 Qs
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/04/2002 12:33:43
Hi. I've got a relatively new TiBook 800 (1280x854 display). New
enough that I just bought it, but old enough that it had 10.1.4
instead of 10.2 in the box...
Anyway, I've got three issues with it:
1) Console (worked around),
2) Booting (kinda worked around), and
3) XFree86
1) The first thing is the console. The BootROM (OFW 3, BootROM version
4.3.7f3) does not have any of "`usb-kbd-ihandles", "`usb-kbd-ihandle",
or "`adb-kbd-ihandle" methods, yet it does have a PB G3 (ADB)
keyboard. I worked around this locally by hardcoding an ADB
keyboard instead of a USB keyboard in the default case--obviously
not the best solution.
2) I can't find a way to boot from the hard drive. I can only get a
'dir' listing of one partition (hd:9,\ with two files: "External
Booter" and "<NUL><NUL><NUL><NUL>HFS+ Private Data"), and after
putting ofwboot.xcf in both an HFS+ and a UFS partition, I can't
boot it from any hd partition. I'm working around that for the
moment by doing "boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf hd:14/netbsd" but I'd like
to get away from using the CD...
3) After hacking the radeon driver in XFree86 4.2 by reducing
RADEON_MMIOSIZE from 512K to 64K (to match the PCI space),
X starts up, but doesn't quite sync right. When I try to
leave X, the screen looks like it's getting burned out. A
color progression of white->purple->black spreads across the
screen in a very alarming way...
The Monitor section I'm using (found via google somewhere) is:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "TiBook Panel"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 55-65
Option "DPMS"
Mode "1280x854" # D: 79.815 MHz, H: 51.963 kHz, V: 60.003 Hz
DotClock 79.815
HTimings 1280 1296 1408 1536
VTimings 854 855 858 866
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
EndMode
EndSection
Is anyone running X on this system? If so, how?
Anyone have any thoughts on any of these items?
-allen
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