Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-17 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Mon, 17 May 2004 09:45:20 -0400, Matt Gracie escreveu: > I doubt that's what's being used for display. Your doubts are well-founded. -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1100 6/71 +55 (11) 5686 9607 04.674-000

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-17 Thread Matt Gracie
On May 16, 2004, at 7:39 PM, Ron Murray wrote: I don't know what a personality card is either, sorry. But you're right, that would mean you're stuck with Apple support. A personality card is an add-on card for certain Powermacs (Beige G3s, 6500s, and a couple of others I can't remember) t

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-17 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sun, 16 May 2004 19:39:47 -0400, Ron Murray escreveu: > of course, there's the fact that it was working but isn't now, > which would argue against a known problem. The interesting thing is the timing... it happened just as my toddler was banging at the keyboard. This would point to so

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-16 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Dom, 2004-05-16 às 20:20, Ron Murray escreveu: > http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g3b.shtml > > > # Apple has discovered the cause of the dim video problem with the > > audio/video personality card in the Power Mac G3s. Contact Apple > > or your Apple dealer for a new card that fixes the problem

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-16 Thread Ron Murray
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Dom, 2004-05-16 às 20:20, Ron Murray escreveu: http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g3b.shtml > # Apple has discovered the cause of the dim video problem with the > audio/video personality card in the Power Mac G3s. Contact Apple > or your Apple dealer

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-16 Thread Ron Murray
Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Wed, 12 May 2004 12:47:44 +1000, Greg Hamilton escreveu: Try booting MacOS and check the display settings there. Did that, nothing interesting in the control panel. Any other ideas, or am I doomed to Apple technical assistanc

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-16 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Wed, 12 May 2004 12:47:44 +1000, Greg Hamilton escreveu: > Try booting MacOS and check the display settings > there. Did that, nothing interesting in the control panel. Any other ideas, or am I doomed to Apple technical assistance? -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-11 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Wed, 12 May 2004 12:47:44 +1000, Greg Hamilton escreveu: > Try booting MacOS and check the display settings there. Will do. Unfortunately it will take some days until I go back to that computer. Perhaps zapping the PRAM... what was that, Cmd-Opt-P-R? > Does the monitor by c

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-11 Thread Greg Hamilton
A long time ago I rebooted an iBook running OS X and started GNU/Linux (YDL 2.something). The screen was dimmed and the volume was turned down when I rebooted. These settings were stored in the PRAM and persisted as the max values for brightness and volume in my Linux session. It took a long ti

Re: Dim video on a G3

2004-05-11 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
No ideas about this? BTW, the OSD works OK... Em Sat, 08 May 2004 13:11:09 -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra escreveu: > I have an Apple Power Macintosh G3 desktop 233 MHz, it is > running Debian testing (basically). It boots with BootX. > > Attached to it i