Subject: Re: 8500 + ATI graphics card - No Openfirmware prompt
To: sol glimt <glimt@littlebrother.org>
From: Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/17/2003 14:14:50
On s=F8ndag, aug 17, 2003, at 02:23 Europe/Copenhagen, sol glimt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install NetBSD on a OldWorld PPC (8500).  It is running=20=

> Open
> Firmware version 1.0.5 + the patches.  When I try to boot to the=20
> prompt, I
> get the classic blank screen.  Before I give up and go to the serial=20=

> port, I
> wanted to ask a couple of very uninformed questions.
>
> 1.  My box has a third party ATI graphics card in it.  Would the=20
> output device
> still be /chaso/control?

If I'm not mistaken, you should look at the device tree in open=20
firmware. You will find the ATI card there. Use that as the output=20
device. Worked for me.

/Daniel