I have finally figured out how to boot my 7300 from a serial console
(whew).  So I dropped in the ATI rage 128 video card I bought, and
with the card in there the box won't even get to the OFW prompt :-(

It's possible that there is simply something wrong with the card (I
got it off Ebay).  It might be broken or it might be an X86 card.
I have no way to tell.

Anyway, for future googlers, here is one person that was not able to
get a powermac 7300 to play nice with an ATI Rage 128 pci video card.

Anyone want the card?

-russ


russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com (Russell McManus) writes:

> Christopher Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu> writes:
> 
> > On 1 Jan 2003, Russell McManus wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Silly to follow up to myself.  But anyway, I finally got my hands on
> > > an ATI rage 128, and when I put the card into the machine and reboot,
> > > I get the "monitor won't sync" problem described in the macppc FAQ.
> > > So I guess it's time to try to manually add the nvramrc patches
> > > mentioned there.
> > > 
> > > Any other ideas?  I hope it works...
> > 
> > 	Did you buy a Rage 128 Mac card or an x86 card? If it's an x86 
> > card it has no Openfirmware driver and it won't ever display anything OF. 
> > But, it will probably work in X if you set your machine to auto-boot and 
> > start xdm, after getting a working config from a serial console.
> 
> I sure hope I bought the Rage 128 Mac card.  I think that they said it
> was pulled from a blue and white.  Do you know of any way to verify by
> looking at the card?
> 
> -russ