Subject: Help: Black screen on Powerbook G3
From: David Ray (daver@idiom.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 19:47:04 MST
Hi mol-ers:
I get a black screen when I start up MOL on my Powerbook G3. I've
searched the archives and haven't found a solution to this problem.
Others mentioned they have the same problem. I am using a Powerbook
G3 wallstreet (233) (aty mach 64 video driver) and kernel 2.2.14. MOL
starts up just fine but as soon as it creates an X window it freezes
with strange console messages. I've appended the console messages and
my molrc file. Any help is appreciated.
Someone posted that he is running MOL just fine on a Powerbook G3
Lombard. Wondering whats the trick. If someone has this working
please email me or post your molrc file and let me know what OS
you're using. Thanks.
-Dave
daver@idiom.com
PS I have MacOS 8.51 and booting with the old-style ROM.
The black screen hangs at the line 'video: Write to read-only
register 6 !', then I hit control-c twice to stop the process.
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>> startmol
Using MOL library directory /usr/lib/mol
Mac-on-Linux 0.9.41
(C) 1997-2000 Samuel Rydh, <samuel@ibrium.se>
Using resource file '/etc/molrc'
MOL kernel module 1.1.41
32MB RAM mapped at 0x20000000
<ROM_FIX> 4096K ROM mapped at 0x4fc00000
<Physical ROM mapping>
ROM checksum = 0x1ca
Running in PowerPC 750 mode (G3)
DEC frequency: 0x00fbc520 (16 MHx), 165:10 mticks/usec
PCI-bridge 'pci' (bus 0..0) installed at 0x80000000
Heathrow, (0:16) found
Don't know how to access NVRAM with 0 addesses
No swim3 floppy controller found
Video module 'xvideo' installed.
Video module 'console_video' not installed.
MODE: 640*480, depth 8,32, 0.0 Hz
MODE: 800*600, depth 8,32, 0.0 Hz
MODE: 1024*768, depth 8,32, 0.0 Hz
MODE: 1152*864, depth 8,32, 0.0 Hz
MODE: 1280*1024, depth 8,32, 0.0 Hz
MODE: 1600*1200, depth 8,32, 0.0 Hz
Starting in video mode 640*480, depth 32, 0.0 Hz [offs:0, rb:2560]
osi_enet: Attached to network interface <eth0>
osi_enet: Ethernet address is: 00 05 02 0f dc d6
osi_scsi: *** OSI SCSI DISABLED **
MESH SCSI-driver installed (IRQs 12/12)
HFS disk: 1466 MB, /dev/hda7 [read-only]
SCSI-Disk (hw-0): 0 MB
Starting emulation...
Unknown SPR register 1017
Unknown SPR register 1017
Unknown SPR register 1017
Mapping GC at F3000000
video: Write to read-only register 6 !
Signal INT
One more to kill emulator
cleaning up...
Terminating threads...
DONE
>>
molrc:
newworld_boot: no
processor: 8 # Should almost *ALWAYS* be 8 <------------
ram_size: 32 # You might want to increase this
blkdev: /dev/hda7 -ro
#mouse_device: /dev/usbmouse
mouse_protocol: console # usb (ps2), adb, console
mouse_dpi: 140 # higher == slower mouse
use_x_cursor: yes # use X cursor as mouse cursor
disable_osi_enet: no
enet_interface: eth0
resolution: 640/480/60 # width/height[/Hz]
depth: 8 #
vmode_database: /etc/fb.modes
start_on_console: no #switch to console initially
autoswitch_console: yes #allow automatic switch to console
enable_console_video: yes # 'no' to disable full-screen (console) video
enable_xvideo: yes #
use_backing_store: no # Set to 'yes' only if the X-server is remote.
keyboard_id: 2
gamma: 1.0 # one value for all RGB
logfile: /tmp/mol-logfile # only used in debugger mode
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David Ray
daver@idiom.com
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