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
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
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?

> 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...

> Anyway I try to boot from the scsi disk and I get a default catch and a
> hex number immediately. I don't even see the HD led blink. Impressive :)
> I set of course the load base stuff, etc.

	How about with floppy disks? It may take five minutes but it
should at least load some data from the disks.

	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.