Chris Tribo wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> 
> > However I thought, let's attach it to the 8200...
> >
> > First of all I can't egt a video output in OF 1.0.5 on the 8200! neither
> > with internal video card (/platinum) neither with the excellent Diamond
> > Javeline card that I have (which works in MacOS and MkLinux...) For now
> > I resorted to a serial console..
> 
>         Did you load the OF 1.0.5 nvram video patch listed in the FAQ /
> Model Support Page? Video won't sync without it. Are you using an Apple
no, I didn't load the patch. But it doesn't even try to sync, it spits
out directly to serial console...

> monitor? I'm pretty sure video chips that old don't have DDC support in OF
> and they need to find Apple Monitor Detection. I'm pretty sure there are
I have an apple 13" rgb monitor. It may nto sync correctly. Like my 4400
needs a multiysnc monitor. But at least I see garbage and not a black
screen.

> boards with Platinum video that work, I think the PowerTowers do. I can't
> speak for the S3 video card, it may not have an OF driver, just an Apple
> ROM driver. I seem to remember that I was able to bring my 7200 up to a
> graphics console. Any chance you don't have enough VRAM on the motherboard
> and it's trying to initialize the graphics chip to a resolution that needs
> more than you have?
No I would exclude that. the monitor is 640x480 and I htink I even have
expandend the VRAM. I can get 1024x768 @ 16bit under macos I think.
 
> > from what dev / ls tells me, the box has bandit and looks in many
> > aspects similar to the 9500. The devaliases are even wrong,, scsi and
> > scsi-int exist.. while I have only one NCR bus I think...
> 
>         Well that's not technically incorrect if they point to the same
> node...
scsi-int points to mesh :)
 
>         How about with floppy disks? It may take five minutes but it
> should at least load some data from the disks.
well, since booting from floppies failed on my 9600... but well on the
9600 the kernel gets loaded, gives some timeouts on read and comes to
the point of asking a second floppy.

On the 8200 I get a default catch or a failed claim immediatly...
 
>         Using that utility Tim pointed out to dump your OFW device list
> contents would be useful. I'm having a hard time remembering if TNT was
> just a Catalyst board with fixed PCI bus timings and a CPU daughtercard
> socket, or if there were more differences.
I have no clue... what ofw utility? Under which OS does it run?

ah, is there some way to use my working 4400 as serial console? what are
my choices for a simple serial emulator? I need also to set the port to
38400. Thus I could run an xterm or similar and copy&paste output from
the 8200 when it dumps OFW to the serial console.
CUrrently I use my PB 170 as a console... but it has no ethernet and so
getting information out of it is cumbersome. Tips? (I hate minicom...)

-Riccardo