Since I have most of my stuff out for shuffling around and testing, I decided to have a go at trying to use my Thunder3D. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work or at least it's not putting out any video.
I located the Radius Thunder3D installer and installed the software, which is just 3 extensions as near as I can tell. The normal RadiusWare PCI software doesn't appear applicable.
According to the Read Me that came with the Thunder3D it's normal for the first boot with it not to produce video because it apparently has to load some "fix" into NVRAM to work, and then subsequent boots are supposed to work fine.
Sadly, subsequent reboots fair no better.
The card shows up as two devices in one slot (which I suspect are the independent GLiNT Delta and GLiNT 500TX chips) in both TattleTech and the Apple System Profiler.
I'm not entirely sure what's applying the NVRAM "fix". If it's the card, then I'd expect that to happen regardless of what version of the OS I'm using. However, if it's being applied by the Radius extensions, then I could imagine them maybe not working with OS 9.1 and not performing that step, and thus not working.
I'll try to get a more era appropriate boot environment setup to see if that helps any, and perhaps there's something I can poke around with in OpenFirmware. I need to get setup to probe this machine's OpenFirmware via serial anyway to keep at trying to get my Voodoo5 working per @DarthNvader .
I located the Radius Thunder3D installer and installed the software, which is just 3 extensions as near as I can tell. The normal RadiusWare PCI software doesn't appear applicable.
According to the Read Me that came with the Thunder3D it's normal for the first boot with it not to produce video because it apparently has to load some "fix" into NVRAM to work, and then subsequent boots are supposed to work fine.
Sadly, subsequent reboots fair no better.
The card shows up as two devices in one slot (which I suspect are the independent GLiNT Delta and GLiNT 500TX chips) in both TattleTech and the Apple System Profiler.
I'm not entirely sure what's applying the NVRAM "fix". If it's the card, then I'd expect that to happen regardless of what version of the OS I'm using. However, if it's being applied by the Radius extensions, then I could imagine them maybe not working with OS 9.1 and not performing that step, and thus not working.
I'll try to get a more era appropriate boot environment setup to see if that helps any, and perhaps there's something I can poke around with in OpenFirmware. I need to get setup to probe this machine's OpenFirmware via serial anyway to keep at trying to get my Voodoo5 working per @DarthNvader .