Re: Disk errors on PowerBook 180

luRaichu <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:33:45 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k
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On Thursday, June 11th, 2026 at 1:28 AM, Nat Sloss <[email protected]=
m.au> wrote:

> Just wanted to say that graphics can get much faster with support for 16 =
shades of grey or 16/256 colors on external display.
>=20
> If you enable options GENFB_SHADOWFB graphics get a lot faster on PowerBo=
oks at the expense of a little memory.

Does this apply for other machines as well? The next computer I want to ins=
tall NetBSD/mac68k on is a Macintosh IIcx with 64 MB RAM and an accelerated=
 24-bit color video card, the Radius PrecisionColor 8-24X.
However it seems that card may not work, according to this snippet from INS=
TALL
> Most basic NuBus video cards (there have been some problems with some 24-=
bit color cards and with most QuickDraw accelerators)