Black and White Display with Panther!

kainjow

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OK here's a strange one.

I've got an old Power Mac G3. It had been running 10.2.8 for a while, and the display worked fine. It's got one of those old graphic cards that doesn't have VGA, only has that weird old Mac style monitor hookup. So I have an adapter to VGA where my 17" Samsung LCD display is connected.

Today I decided to upgrade it to Panther, and as soon as the installer booted up, the display went grayscale! But it's not smooth grayscale. It's all messed up, and it's hard to read the text. In Displays in System Preferences it shows up as 256 color, but no color is displayed. If I take a screenshot and then view that screenshot on my other computer, it's all shades of yellow.

Ahh! Anyone have any idea what's going on?? Panther somehow dropped a driver for this graphic card or something? I'm currently waiting for all updates to 10.3.9 and beyond to be installed, but I doubt those will fix it...

:(
 
Wow. :) I wouldn't have expected that. Sounds great, though! So they _did_ fix some long standing bugs of Panther in 10.3.9 after all, eh? :)
 
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