P3 866Mhz/100Mhz bus
128 MB PC100 RAM
12GB ata WD Caviar HD---------Master
<4GB Darwin Partition>
LITE-ON CDRW ATA-------------Slave
SOMEKINDA DVD ATA-----------Master
<dysfunctional floppy bus, ignored by bios>
PS/2 Keyboard, Mouse
Diamond Stealth III PCI (S3 Savage4) 32MB
Booting the Darwin CD went fine, seemingly on par performance-wise with FreeBSD/i386.
Console ran at High Res (seems like 1024x768), performing smoothly.
Installation went without noticeable problems, 100% install completed.
Upon Hard Disk boot, after the resolution switch to HighRes, frames lag very noticeably this time. Also, a strange white border is present.
#mount -v -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt
returns an error message denying the existence or validity of mount_cd9660, but I have seen ls results that say otherwise.
Emacs sometimes takes several seconds to scroll one full page, to further indicate the troubles I am having.
Please help.
Warner Watchowski
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This slowness of display in the console is a known issue with the kernel that is installed with Darwin-6.6, and it has been addressed with the various video cards to varying degrees of succes in subsequent releases. Fortunately, the xterm is fast enough, and it appears that your video card is supported, according to the hardware compatibility database.
The recommendation is to experiment with the newer releases, wait for our upcoming release, or try XDarwin/xterm instead of the console. BTW, I have a cheap Nvidia TNT2 card that gives a much faster display with Darwin-7.0, but that release is unfortunately too unstable for most uses.
P3 866Mhz/100Mhz bus
128 MB PC100 RAM
12GB ata WD Caviar HD---------Master
<4GB Darwin Partition>
LITE-ON CDRW ATA-------------Slave
SOMEKINDA DVD ATA-----------Master
<dysfunctional floppy bus, ignored by bios>
PS/2 Keyboard, Mouse
Diamond Stealth III PCI (S3 Savage4) 32MB
Booting the Darwin CD went fine, seemingly on par performance-wise with FreeBSD/i386.
Console ran at High Res (seems like 1024x768), performing smoothly.
Installation went without noticeable problems, 100% install completed.
Upon Hard Disk boot, after the resolution switch to HighRes, frames lag very noticeably this time. Also, a strange white border is present.
#mount -v -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt
returns an error message denying the existence or validity of mount_cd9660, but I have seen ls results that say otherwise.
Emacs sometimes takes several seconds to scroll one full page, to further indicate the troubles I am having.
Please help.
Warner Watchowski
This slowness of display in the console is a known issue with the kernel that is installed with Darwin-6.6, and it has been addressed with the various video cards to varying degrees of succes in subsequent releases. Fortunately, the xterm is fast enough, and it appears that your video card is supported, according to the hardware compatibility database.
http://www.opendarwin.org/hardware/
The recommendation is to experiment with the newer releases, wait for our upcoming release, or try XDarwin/xterm instead of the console. BTW, I have a cheap Nvidia TNT2 card that gives a much faster display with Darwin-7.0, but that release is unfortunately too unstable for most uses.
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/