So New I have an Umbillical Cord

[Nick]

Hi Markus, cheers for all the help on this, when i type in what you 
suggested it simply says its the openFirmware frame buffer.

Any suggestions, and oculd this explain why I'm only getting 640*480 
resolution?

Thanks

Nick

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:31 AM, Markus Deistler wrote:

> Hi,
> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 20.29 Nick wrote:
>
>> Firstly, i ran that dexter.py thing again, and i decided to note what
>> it said. Apparently the setup detects a:
>>
>> OFfb Mac OS display
>
> That is the OpenFirmware "framebufferdevice-driver" for console-video
> (not X!). I never was able to use OFfb without being left sitting in
> front of a blank black screen :-((
>
>> Is there any easy and definite way of running a diagnostic? I can't 
>> see
>> anything in system profiler on os 8.6.
>
> Apple's system profiler should give you some details on your video
> hardware... but Linux also does, just boot into Linux ... and
> for a start run
>
> $ dmesg | grep fb
>
> You'll see something similar to this:
> -------------------------------------
>   io_base_virt: fcbfb000, io_base_phys: f0000000, isa_mem_base: 
> 00000000
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdb6 video=atyfb:vmode:15,cmode:24
> atyfb: mach64GX (ATI888GX00) [0x00d7 rev 0x03] 4M VRAM, 14.31818 MHz 
> XTAL, 135 MHz PLL, 50 Mhz MCLK
> fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI
> controlfb: VRAM Total = 2MB (2MB @ bank 1, 0MB @ bank 2)
> controlfb: using video mode 6 and color mode 0.
> fb1: control display adapter
> -------------------------------------
>
> The type of your "fb" (atyfb/aty128fb/imsttfb/controlfb) should match
> your graphic-card. Further information here:
> http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/cache/1043.html
>
>
> Best Regards, Markus
>
>
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