Re: Amiga Screen Modes

Matthias Münch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.amiga
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 31.07.2019 um 11:23 schrieb Frank Wille:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:01:13 +0200
> Matthias Münch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> The default screen modes for the console are 640x400 for NTSC and
>>> 640x512 for PAL. Which means that a PAL or NTSC interlace screen mode
>>> is selected automatically, unless you have an AGA machine and -A is
>>> given. In the latter case DblPAL or DblNTSC is selected.
>>>
>> Ah I see... but it seems this does not work on my A1200. It always opens
>> a NTSC screen after the kernel is loaded.
> Sorry, just realized that I remembered incorrectly. The GENERIC kernel
> defaults to 640x400, unless GRF_NTSC is commented out in the config
> file.
>
>
>> Can I force a PAL screen? I start with "netbsd -Sn2"
> I am not sure. I used NetBSD on graphics cards since the 90s, so I
> never tried that. Probably you have to compile a kernel without
> GRF_NTSC option and/or use iteconfig to set a new console size.
>
>

iteconfig is good solution without compiling a new kernel but its only 
temporary right? Any chance to make this as default?
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