This is a howto for editing the nvramrc.  It may help if you add that
command, but I don't know.

http://simonraven.nuit.ca/macppc/nvedit.html

>Does anyone know anything about Open Firmware? How can I make it 
>perform that cryptic "setenv boot-args romndrv=1" at startup without me

>having to type it in?

You would have to use a Mac video card or find a pc card that can be
flashed with a mac bios.  It would probably have to be an ATI Radeon,
though I think there are a few flashable Nvidia cards.


>They don't have much money to spend. I see a lot of cheap videocards 
>(AGP and others) for PCs. Would any of these work with the Mac 
>mentioned? It needs to be able to drive the 24" Sony W900 at about 1600

>x 1024, but maybe that's not a big demand these days?


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