Guy Santiglia <robin5153@yahoo.com>  kakimashita=A0:

>> The 8600 might be one of the machines which needs nvramrc magic to get O=
F
>> video to work right. I'm not sure about that.
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Who would know more about that?  this open firmware is a mystery to me.
> I booted from  The MacOS 9 CD and it came up in a higher resolution,
> then rebooted into BSD and it was still 640x480. :(
>=20
> Guy

On my G4, under OpenFirmware :

    dev screen

    words

    show-modes

[a list appears showing lots of nice video modes, all disabled except for
the current one, set in MacOS...]

    set-mode XX

        error : mode is disabled

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