My S900 is running Open Firmware ver. 1.0.5. Is there a newer version
available?
--
Harmon Seaver
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 01:28, Michael Hackett wrote:
>
> By adapter, I meant a little box (about 1.5"x1.5"), aka a dongle, that
> converts an old-style Mac monitor port (DB-15) to an SVGA port. I've
> never seen one of these cards, but my guess is that it already had an
> SVGA port. However, if the
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 15:00, Ludwig wrote:
>
> Have you tried resetting the PRAM? (Hold down command-option-P-R at
> startup until you hear the boot chime again.) That would revert the
> video output to the default safe/compatible resolution of (IIRC) 640 X
> 480 @ 60Hz.
I tried, but:
On 08 Dec 2002 19:33:37 +0100
Leandro Guimar Faria Corsetti Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> # Video: ixMicro Twin Turbo Graphics Accelerator [...]
>
> I could find no DIP switches on it.
By adapter, I meant a little box (about 1.5"x1.5"), aka a dongle, that
converts an old-style Mac monitor
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 13:33, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
wrote:
> It is the original video adapter, from
> http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/s900.shtml:
>
> # Video: ixMicro Twin Turbo Graphics Accelerator standard with 4-8 MB
> VRAM, resolutions to 1920x1080, 24-bit color to 1152x8
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 16:34, Michael Hackett wrote:
>
> However, is a PS/2 monitor even SVGA? If it's not multisync, it probably
> won't work with any Mac card.
That may be the case. IBM informs us at
http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/SBJR-3XPKZ2.html?lang=en_US&page=brand&brand=IBM+Monito
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 02:46, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:38:35AM +0100, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti
> Dutra wrote:
>
> I think you're correct about the display being the issue. I'm pretty
> sure this computer was built before the machines were made compatible
> with reg
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:46:11 -0700
"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think you're correct about the display being the issue. I'm pretty
> sure this computer was built before the machines were made compatible
> with regular multisync monitors.
There's no built-in video on these machine
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:38:35AM +0100, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti
Dutra wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 23:20, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> >
> > What you want to do is install BootX and put the boot kernel in the Linux
> > Kernels folder in the mac os system folder.
>
> No, I'd r
I'm pretty sure that nothing that the Old World OpenFirmware is capable of is
going to be useful to you on your Umax.
That model of Mac clone had one of the first releases of open firmware ever on
a Macintosh. It's full of bugs and there are probably lots of features that
just weren't impleme
edebs.tar on your hard drive too (all these
> need to go in an HFS partition - but it won't work for HFS+ partitions, as
> Linux doesn't understand HFS+ yet).
Yes, I had a hard time Googling around for HFS+ in olden times, until I
understood it would never be... at least no
when you launch bootx,
direct it to the ramdisk image.
But before doing that, put the basedebs.tar on your hard drive too (all these
need to go in an HFS partition - but it won't work for HFS+ partitions, as
Linux doesn't understand HFS+ yet).
Note that the Umax SuperMac is an ol
A workmate just gave me an OldWord Umax SuperMac S900 180/DP with 2
SCSI disks and 160MB. It has Mac OS 9.1 on it.
I figured I could boot Debian from diskettes to wipe out Mac OS 9.1,
but couldn't get them to boot. Booting from CD obviously didn't work.
I ca
13 matches
Mail list logo
