Hello,

> also, the other thing is that the Radeon shows up in dmesg:
...
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0d function 0x00: vendor 0x1002 device 0x5159
>  ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

> so that all points to the card working in this machine, just that OF doesn't
> report it in 'dev / ls' so the ofb stuff won't ever actually work.

Any chance to get an older firmware image for the card? It might want OF3 which the 8600 doesn't have.

good luck
Michael