Hmm, I just noticed this because I didn't try it earlier. When I boot 
the machfb kernel, sometimes, not all the time, when I reboot or even 
if I shut the system down and bring it back up, the display does not 
initialize in openfirmware correctly. The light show it produces has to 
be something close to an acid trip during light show. If I boot the fb 
kernel again, when it reinit's the chip, the display comes back. It 
seems that OpenFirmware is expecting the chip to be in a certain state 
at init or my hardware is just flaky. It came back to OF normally after 
rebooting it a few times. I've seen this happen with OS X as well, so 
no idea what is going on. It passes all the diagnostics from Apple Test 
Pro.

http://user.dtcc.edu/~ctribo/what_the.jpg
http://user.dtcc.edu/~ctribo/what_the2.jpg


On Jan 30, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Michael wrote:

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> Hello,
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>> It occurs on the Rage Pro in the Beige G3 too, my wording of the 
>> original email was just overly poor. I guess I need some "Jolt Cola 
>> for those late night hacks".
>
> Ok, to get things straight:
> - - scrolling works on the G3 but not on the PowerBook
> - - both don't fill the screen completely
> - - both get the resolution right
> ?
>
> I just noticed that both show
> machfb0: 16 MB aperture at 0x82000000, 4 KB registers at 0x00000000
> I'm not sure if it really uses the registers BAR, but since the 
> blitter seems to work fine on the G3 despite this I don't think it's 
> something to worry about.
>
> have fun
> Michael
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