On Tuesday 18 December 2001 01:36 pm, Kevin Diggs opined:
> > > 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).

In the interest of clarity, here's what happens. It's not that I see 
unsynchronized video or a black screen: I see a pure white screen with 
nothing else displayed. 

If I read michael wolfson's update to detecting video cards in OF, I do 
indeed have an OF-compliant card (it reports its identity as an ATI Mach 64). 
So it's perplexing: I have specified the physical address, the name, the 
alias,  and all combinations I can think of. This combination has worked as a 
console in LinuxPPC and OS X (yes, I had OS X on a 9500). 

I'm not as concerned now that it boots properly (that's all I needed the 
console for). 
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