Monitor sync'ing under auto-boot? on OF 3?

gabriel rosenkoetter <greclipsed.net> writes:

> 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).

Does this help?  (the topmost example, that is)
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc/
6034

Magnus

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:06:43PM +0200, Magnus Henoch
wrote:
> Does this help?  (the topmost example, that is)
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc/
6034

It sure does!

I thought that was for "screen doesn't sync" not
for "screen comes
up blank white". I had ass-umed that the problem was
that OF init'ed
the screen, but after the kernel had already parsed the PCI
bus, not
that OF wasn't bothering to init the screen at all absent
being
asked explicitly to display, and figuring the OS would
figure it
out. Oh well.

See also Bob Nestor's (there-referenced) post:

  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2004/09/05
/0000.html

Thanks!

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
greclipsed.net