Wallstreet install/boot/screen problems

[Suzanne Payne]

--On Tuesday, February 4, 2003 7:58 pm -0700 Dan Burcaw 
<dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:

> Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.  Which "Driver" are you using?
> Either 'fbdev' or 'ati'.  Try the one you're not using.

Hi, thanks for this suggestion.  The extant one was fbdev so I changed it 
to ati (it does claim to have an ATI Mach64 card in it).  Unfortunately 
startx then completely crashed me back to the command line.  The log file 
talked endlessly of ranges being out of sync and always had a couple of 
strange corrupted bands across it.  Never seen anything like that.  Finally 
it declared it could find screens but none of them was in range.  But the 
good news is that my LCD screen was perfectly legible when I was dumped 
back into the command line!

I put the driver back to fbdev and X started up with no problems (no 
mention in the log of anything being out of sync this time)...but...my LCD 
screen was whiter than a white thing!  Looked fab on the external monitor 
though.

I'm reaching the conclusion it's a specific Wallstreet (crappy 12" LCD 
version) problem: even with just the command line when the screen 'wakes 
up' after it's gone to sleep it also comes up white.  Again, it stays white 
then until the machine is rebooted, whereup it miraculously returns to 
normality and I have a happly little normally coloured smiling mac.  Under 
MacOs (9 or X) the screen's colour is normal when it wakes up.  Is YDL/X 
Windows taking some setting from the Open Firmware or PRAM?  But I guess if 
that was the case the external monitor would also be white, and it's not. 
The only time I get the same 'white' screen under MacOs is if I reset the 
PRAM, but then once I've adjusted the contrast and brightness buttons (not 
mapped under YDL), it remembers the settings.  Puzzling... :(

Suzanne