Jorgen Pehrson <jorgen.pehrson@seinf.mail.abb.com> writes:

>> It sounds like unsupported video card.  Could you send the result of
>> 
>>  >> cnfg 3
>> 
>> Tohru Nishimura
>> Nara Institute of Science and Technology

>If I do a "cnfg 3" it doesn't say anything. If I do a "cnfg" it says this:

> 1: PMAG-FA DEC V5.3c TCF0 (FA:    PXG_T -- D=24, Z=24)

The PMAG-F is a acceleerated 3-D framebuffer with true-colour, onboard
24-bit Z-buffer an onboard blitter, and an onboard i860 to do 3d
transformations.  It is not supported by NetBSD (or by OpenBSD, AFAIK).

The kernel is not finding a supported framebuffer, so it's switching to
the serial console.  Connect an RS-232 terminal to the low-numbered
bulkhead connector (I don't remember if they are numbered 2 and 3 or 0 and 1.)

I will make sure and print a more informative message when this
happens.  It should make it into the 1.3-ALPHA snapshot.


(Just curious: do the DECstations predate or postdate the ASEA/BBC merger?)