From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:17:45 -0900 From: Ethan Benson To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: GeForce on PPC == _no work_ Message-ID: <20011028201745.F32547@plato.local.lan> References: <20011028033420.Q22102@plato.local.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from dpates@dsdk12.net on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:01:14PM -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:01:14PM -0700, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > I suggest going to ebay and finding a Rage128 Mac edition. I found > > quite a few there when i was tasked with setting up a Silver G4 for > > someone, i even got two Rage128s so i would have an extra just in case > > i would be able to afford one those nice machines in the near future. > > > > the Rage128 works very well in those machines, the mac edition is > > needed since you want to be able to see OpenFirmware. > > Yeah, I know that part. But will any of those cards (or any Radeon boards > for Mac) have an ADC port? The problem is, the system has a flatpanel > display - in this case, a 17" Apple Cinema Display LCD - and the nVidia > driver might work if not for that. yes one of the Rage128's i bought on ebay has the ADC port. > also FreeBSD people, since they also can't use nVidia's binary drivers. I > hope he has some success. don't hold your breath, you might suffocate. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/