Bill,

    Are these patches only needed (at least for the sake of getting video to
work) for those machines with on board video (which the 8600 has but the 9600
does not)?

                    kevin

Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, paul beard wrote:
>
> > I am still having trouble working out how to get video to work.
> >
> > This doesn't do it.
> >
> > output-device       /ATY,mach64@D       ttya
> >
> > I have a PCI video card on slot D (4th from the top), and I have tried
> > specifying the PCI device name (/bandit@F4000000) as well. No joy. screen
> > doesn't work, either (but we knew that).
>
> Do you have the nvram patches to make the video work right?
>
> At least with the 8600 (and I thought all of that vintage) the timings
> weren't right to get the video to work at boot. So there are needed nvram
> patches.
>
> Take care,
>
> Bill