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- > How does one actually access the different modes supported by chopp's
- > console stuff? There seems to be some A2024 support in there, and I'd
- > LOVE to get X running on mine! :-) (especially since my sun3's monitor
- > went up in smoke and bright blue sparks recently, sigh).
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- Chris? There are ioctl's that set display mode, and Chris seems to
- have a tool that sends those ioctls, right?
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- > Also, in both 713 and 714, reboot stopped working. It used to work
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- Mike Hitch gave an important clue: it might be because of recent
- misalignment of the reboot code. If the reboot code isn't long aligned,
- the prefetch trick might not work.
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- > perfectly, now it gives me fireworks. The display area of the screen
- > (the 640x400 in the midle, the overscan area stays grey) alternates
- > between a pattern of vertical white stripes and grey/blue/black
- > "static". I'm running on a B2000 with a GVP Series II '030, 8M ram.
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- This could also be the result of the new chipmem allocator. Chris,
- do you give chipmem away starting from the start or from the end?
- Previously, chipmem was allocated from the ends, growing towards
- the start. Could be that the new allocator goes the other way round,
- then you'd see the reboot code "show up" in your console, as it has
- to be copied to chipmem to be able to turn off the mmu before the
- actual reset.
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- -Markus
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