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Re: Stuck in 800x600



Er, make it Option-Command-P-R. It's getting late ;-)

Laurent

> From: Laurent de Segur <ldesegur@mac.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:26:49 -0700
> To: James Tyson <james@samizdat.co.nz>, <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Stuck in 800x600
> Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> 
> May I suggest that you reset the nvram as OS X may have left it in mambo to
> see if this fixes the problem. At boot time, press Option-Command-N-V until
> you hear the chime and the machine reboots, then let go. The machine will
> reboot to the first OS it finds (unless you press option) as you lost your
> OF patches and env-vars, in case that matters... Re-enable them accordingly.
> 
> 
> Laurent
> 
>> From: James Tyson <james@samizdat.co.nz>
>> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:03:34 +1200 (NZST)
>> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Stuck in 800x600
>> Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>> 
>> 
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> I have an iBook2 which I have been running Linux on quite happily for a
>> while now, however, the other day I was booting into OSX and it crashed on
>> boot up, and since then the framebuffer has been stuck in 800x600.
>> In OS9 or OSX it's working fine, and seems to be able to change video
>> modes, however Linux is stuck in 800x600, but *thinks* it's in 1024x768.
>> The output of fbset says "1024x768-60" and text scrolls past the bottom of
>> the screen. Also, X seems to work, except that I can only see the top left
>> 800x600 pixels of the screen (however X thinks it's in 1024x768).
>> 
>> Anyone know how to fix this?
>> 
>> Cheers.
>> 
>> James Tyson ---
>> Samizdat New Media Solutions
>> 
>> 
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