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- > You are not alone.... 720 on my machine (12meg fast, 2meg
- > chip, A3000, ECS) doesn't work either. Nor do any of the 5 other
- > kernels I've compiled today from the new sources :-( . What are we
- > missing? The <only> time the kernels <sometimes> work is after I run
- > "term 3.4" (Under AmigaDOS, not term1.08 under NetBSD)
- > I've tried the kernels with both the original (well, the second most
- > recent release) and the new versions of the /bin and /sbin files.
-
- When was the last time you downloaded the loadbsd program? It has
- changed more than once. It won't boot unless you have the right
- loadbsd binary.
-
- >
- > On the times it <has> come up, it says it's opened a 640x400 4 color
- > display. The screen is black, all the characters are about half as
- > high as they should be, and they are all multi-colored and hard to
- > read. The "text" screen is about 80x98 (yup.. 98 rows of text... go
-
- Hmm, have you been following this group? This was explained, its 2024
- mode, it needs to be enabled but you need to change
- _ite_default_height to something alot less than 800 (which it will be)
- if your getting the weird colors and 98 rows of text.
-
- > figure...) BTW: you still get kernel panics when you try and run X11
- > under 720 :-( . I re-directed the output of my script to /dev/null,
- > and it made it a little further... but I ended up with a blank screen
- > and was forced to hard-reboot... :-(
- >
- > I initially suspected that the kernel was somehow defaulting to some
- > "different" display mode (or for some graphics card), but I disabled
-
- This is indeed what happend.
-
- > everything other than the "hires interlace", and it still wouldn't work.
-
- I am suprised it compiled :^).
-
- > (turning on debugging (acdebug) doesn't help either... the screen
- > just goes blank, and stays that way (CTRL-Amiga-Amiga)
- >
- > I've tried compiling with the "views" stuff, but I must have missed
- > something, because I couldn't get it to compile properly...
-
- I am going to re-release some patches now that I have the new source.
-
- >
- > I'm still hoping I can figure out what the problem with 720 is, but
- > I'm running out of things to try....
- >
-
- > Greg Oster
-
- Chris.
-
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