Paul,

    I checked last night and I am using:

    output-device    pci1/@d

as my setting in the 9600. It works with both the IMS twin turbo and a 3dfx 5500
(in the same slot). I am using the upper most slot (closest to the cpu).

    I also discovered some interesting things. I thought these two commands did
essentially the same thing:

    dev pci1/@d
    " pci1/@d" select-dev

However, the first works with the imstt while the second either:

    causes the monitor to go to sleep (DPMS), or

    the open fails???

                    kevin

paul beard wrote:

> well, I was content to leave this alone, but since you all are offering your
> help, I'll persevere.
>
> Thanks to some recent changes to the FAQ, I have verified that this ATI card
> does in fact grok open firmware. It does understand the word 'open' or so it
> claims.
>
> 0 > dev ATY,mach64@F  ok
> 0 > words
> close           restore         draw-logo       write           open
> display-remove  display-install read-rectangle  fill-rectangle  draw-rectangle
> color!          get-colors      set-colors
>  ok
> 0 >
> so with that in mind, I set my output-device thusly. I could use pci1 instead
> of the bandit entry.
>
> output-device       /bandit@F2000000/ATY,mach64@F ttya
>
> odd thing is I can't use dev to get to it with the @F appended. So I'll try
> one more time with that left off and see what happens. In every case, I get a
> pure white screen, so *something* is happening.
>
> (correction: I preceded the address with a slash: the @F is irrelevent, it
> turns out).
>
> Interesting: if I enter this command at the 0> prompt:
>
> 0 > " pci1/ATY,mach64" select-dev words .properties unselect-dev
>
> the screen wakes up. Further investigations had me inside the card's firmware
> with .properties . . . .  incomprehensible but encouraging somehow.
>
> any idea on some way to put something on the screen to see if we can actually
> drive it?
>
> anything here I can use?
> 0 > words
> close           restore         draw-logo       write           open
> display-init
> display-remove  display-install read-rectangle  fill-rectangle  draw-rectangle
> color@
> color!          get-colors      set-colors
>
> close shuts it off, I see. Hmm  . . . . and what an appropriate .sig quote
> that is, too.
> --
> Paul Beard
> 8040 27th Ave NE
> Seattle WA 98115
>
> Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
>                 -- Wernher von Braun