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Re: Quik and atyfb



Hi,

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Simon Stapleton wrote:
> Yes, just using video=atyfb causes the same issue.  There is a  
> difference somewhere in the way quik configures stuff and the way  
> BootX/miBoot do it, using video=atyfb (+ all the various gubbins)  
> from a BootX / miBoot boot works fine and gives you accelerated  
> video, the same from a quik boot results in garbage.

It does not surprise me at all. It is not the fault of Quik, it is
simply that OF is completely broken on OldWorld PowerMacs. Those
machines were never intended to be booted from OF. It is the MacOSROM
which does all the job of hardware initialisation, thus the correct
behaviour with miBoot. :)

Cheers,
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