Subject: Re: MOL doesn't read nvram?
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 13:53:57 MDT
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:26:32AM -0700, Peter Canning wrote:
> Every time I start MOL (0.9.50), I have to reset "Menu Blinking" to off in
> the General Controls, "Highlight Color" to Yellow in Appearance, and set
> the TimeZone and "Daylight Savings Time" in "Date & Time". I assume there
> is something wrong with the nvram stuff. I'm running MOL on an PowerMac
> 7300 in OldWorld mode, booting MacOS 8.1, and the modification time of
> /usr/lib/mol/nvram/nvram.ow indicates it is being written by MOL. MOL does
> manage to switch to the right video resolution shortly after starting up in
> the 640x480 specified in /etc/molrc. Does anyone know what is going on here?
>
> I saw people reporting problems with nvram back in February 2000 with MOL
> 0.9.41. Is this still the same problem, or is something else going wrong?
>
Well, the problem is that if MOL saves the complete nvram
after an oldworld session, there will be problems at the
next boot (probably because of diagnostic OpenFirmware
information indicating an error). The current workaround
is saving only the the parameter RAM. Unfortunately it appears
as if the location of the PRAM inside the nvram is dependent
upon the system version and/or oldworld ROM-image.
I believe it would be possible to probe for the parameter RAM
offset from one of the mac-side drivers instead of hardcoding it.
Cheers,
/Samuel
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