Okay, so I am both behind the times and out of the loop,
BUT!
My long-reliable (pushing 12 years, if not pulling it)
7200/90 with
a 7500 motherboard replacement with a G3 processor finally
kicked
the bucket recently, and I'm finally getting around to
replacing it
in kind (rather than having the FreeBSD+2x3ware 9x00 storage
system
stand in... let's not get into an argument over that, the
vendor
supports the drivers and management interface there, and
they work
quite nicely).
Despite something of a version jump (I'm ashamed to admit it
was
still running... 1.6K. No, really), things under both NetBSD
and
OpenFirmware (almost as useful as OpenBoot!) 3 are mostly
familiar,
and OF 3 is mostly less of a pain than OF 1.0.5, only but if
the
system is permitted auto-boot? true (with output ostensibly
going
to the monitor, of course, not ttya), instead of boot
messages and
console, it is simply blank white. If, instead, boot is
issued
manually at the OF prompt, what I expect to happen does
(ofwboot.xcf
flies by, boot messages in the silly OpenFirmware font start
scrolling).
Setting boot-command to catch 5000 ms boot (or similar)
definitely
pauses as desired, syncs the monitor as normal, and, as
before,
displays blank white. (Hey, it was worth a shot.)
I realize, as I type, that I'm using a slightly abnormal
(21", Sony,
dual-input, etc) CRT, and it may behoove me to plug in a
less fruity
monitor and see if the problem persists, especially since
poking
at Google doesn't turn up anyone else with a similar
complaint.
But am I missing something obvious?
(The system in question is one of these:
http://support.apple.com/specs/powermac/P
ower_Mac_G4_Digital_Audio.html
The 533 MHz model with a(n?) NVIDIA GeForce2 MX. As
described there,
except the Intel EE Pro and D-Link DFE 530TX+ PCI cards.)
(In other news... how -current do I need to be for i2s to
actually
get configured? Is it as simple as its being excluded from
GENERIC?
Some mailing list history reading suggests that the driver
is
non-functional on some iBooks... but it's not clear that
this
implies that it mostly works. If audio can work, I'll be
getting
another of these systems--$250 at cherokeedata.com, whose
selection
I do recommend perusing--to run the stereo.)
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr eclipsed.net
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