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- From: "Markus Illenseer" <markus@tiger.teuto.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 21:10:09 +0100
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- Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.1, Picasso II and video modes
- Message-ID: <68246059@tiger.teuto.de>
- Organization: The plains of passage
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- George Harvey wrote:
- > However, I STILL get a blank screen! I start Xcl and the Picasso fires
- > up and gives me a blank white screen. I can tell from the disk activity
- > that the system is still running and I can type commands into the
- > invisible windows, 'shutdown now' works well at this point :-)
-
- RTFM, ctrl-alt-backspace will force Xcl to quit. Xcl will take about 1 to
- 2 minutes to fire up. BTW, X requires a local network, at least localhost
- must be set.
-
- > Getting blank screens in both console mode and with X suggests to me
- > that maybe there is some compatibility problem between the driver and my
- > card (I have no problems with the card running Workbench).
-
- Interesting but sad conclusion, and yes, you may be right. The driver
- currently seems not be able to deal with 1MB boards and definitely does not
- like segmented mode.
-
- > BTW, anyone know what all these jumpers do? I think JP402 is to set
- > segmented mode but I can't find anything in the manual about the others.
-
- Now, where is my manual?
-
- --
- Markus Illenseer
-