Subject: Re: dark screen on PB was: Wallstreet PB booting
To: Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@college.dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/10/2004 23:04:27
pushing the brightness button works for me, it doesn't reach 100%
brightness due to a but in the abtn code, but it isn't off either.
On Nov 10, 2004, at 11:02 PM, Joe Laffey wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Chris Tribo wrote:
>
>> You need the system disk or startup disk patches installed into your
>> nvram to boot from the ide drives. Boot device should be ide0/@0:0
>> not ata0. ide0 and ide1 are the patched versions of ata0 and ata2
>> IIRC.
>
>
> OK! Now it is working!
>
> But.... The screen goes black (the backlight turns off) during boot.
> It happens during the boot process, presumably when it encounters the
> backlight device.
>
> Also, I get to a point where it claims it does not know the boot
> device. When I enter the boot device at the prompt (wd0a) it seems to
> work as usual.
>
> But I still can't see anything with the backlight out (I can see it
> with a real bright light).
>
> Ideas?
>
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