Subject: Bad Mac OS ROM issues
From: David (dsmol@ddv.com)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 00:39:53 MDT
I experienced many problems acheiving any MOL resolution greater than
800x600 on my G4 today. It turned out that the problem was the ROM image I
was using.
I unfortunately don't remember the source of the most latest ROM image I
found (I believe it was Tome Extracted from the 9.0 install CD). A friend
had an older ROM file that I found before I wiped off the G4. This ROM
fixed all my issues.
Symptoms were: increasing resolution beyond 800x600 would cause MOL to
crash hard - spewing information about loss of network packets followed by
lots of "adb buffer overflow" messages.
I tweaked and tweaked the molrc file until I finally tried my friend's ROM
image which worked.
Incidentally the Problem I posted earlier regarding the 'Unknown SPR
register 944/951' was solved by no longer using the patched (0.9.44MA)
kernel and instead switching to a rebuilt 2.2.15 from the Champion 2.1
distribution kernel-source RPM.
-David
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