Re: Second Sight just arrived

[tsetse@trance.helix.net (tsetse)]

Sean McAfee (mcafee@umich.edu) wrote:
: I came home today to find my Second Sight card waiting at the door.  Joy!

: One other thing I just noticed:  Changes to the display's Border Color have no
: effect on the screen's border, which remains black.  What's up with that?

i too see odd border colours at times.

: One final note:  The first time I booted the computer after installing the
: card, I heard a beep when the "boot-up thermometer" was about a quarter of the
: way across.  The thermometer continued to fill, but nothing further happened
: when it reached the right edge.  Everything happened as normal when I
: rebooted.  I suppose I may not have waited long enough, but all three of my
: CDEV icons (the boot, Sound, and Zip GS) always show up long before the
: thermometer is filled.  Anyone know what the deal is?  (I'm using an
: AppleColor monitor, btw.)

something crashed at boot time, leaving the super hires screen displayed. 
there's an interupt routine that moves the thermometer, which was still 
running. the 1st time i saw this, we were setting up a scsi card and 
stopped a boot early, then went into the monitor to examine things. we 
toggled the sgr screen on (c029:c1) out of curiosity and were amazed to 
see the thermometer spring to life.

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