Greetings!
So I have a PowerBook6,4 12" 1.33Ghz with the Nvidia GeForce FX Go 5200. Now I'm well aware that this GPU is not supported under OS 9 for 3D acceleration and other people have reported it being stuck on 256 colors under Mac OS 9. Here's the curious part though, when I booted it up from the OS 9 Universal iMic CD, it is booted with Millions of Colors. However when booted from Hard Disk it is stuck on 256 colors. I am unable to make any changes to bit-depth once the system is booted however, nor the resolution.
I was thinking whether it was an extension on the CD that was causing it to be booted in Millions, but even after copying the entire contents of the CD and booting from Hard Disk it would still only be in 256 colors.
So this leads me to believe that the act of booting between the CD and HD is changing something, but I'm not sure what.
I'm going to try and use SwitchRes to see if I can force the machine to change bit-depth and resolution and I'll report back my results.
Is there any changes we can make to OpenFirmware or the ROM file that will ensure that the correct display capabilities of this machine is reported to OS 9. This obviously isn't controlled by extensions as even when extensions are disabled machines are still able to change between bit-depth and resolution; I'm figuring it's something going on in the Mac OS ROM file?
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
Apart from that, Sound, Ethernet, USB work great on this. Airport and Bluetooth obviously not working.
Cheers,
Kai