Hi,

Hilmar Böhm <mls@hiro-consult.de> writes:

> I`ve built a new kernel; from -current as of May 20th
>
> Symptoms: The kernel is booted. But after a few seconds, the screen
> gets dark.

I'm currently using a PowerBook5,8 and have managed to get NetBSD
working nicely on it, except X, but I'm compiling the modular xorg
server right now.

I don't have the sources at hand just now, but IIRC you need:

- to have the hard disk controller recognized (trivial)
- to have the gem ethernet recognized (trivial)
- to disable radeonfb and fwohci in your kernel config file or using
  "boot -c"

I'll post patches or commit them ASAP, but I didn't figure out what's
wrong with either radeonfb (same symptoms as you) or fwohci (panics
the kernel), so don't expect anything from me on this front.

Regards,
 Aymeric