Re: GeForce on PPC == _no work_

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 06:56:47PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:

Is there any hope for this system? Or is this an exercise in futility

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.

--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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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.

I have been in contact with Mark Vojkovich at nVidia, and he's going to
try to bug the right people to maybe get the info for programming nVidia
cards with DVI/ADC flatpanels, or at least make sure they know who's
interested in this info - in this case, not just Linux-on-Mac people, but
also FreeBSD people, since they also can't use nVidia's binary drivers. I
hope he has some success.

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Hi,

I went out and bought a Apple 17inch Flat panel and the Radeon Mac Edition
card.  I also bought a DVIator which allows my to use the USB ports,
power, and the Radeon DVI port to connect to the FlatPanel ADC connector.
It works fine under MacOS in 1280x1024.

I am now trying to help Ani by testing his driver (Ani does not have a
Flat panel to test with) and trying to get things to work.  So hopefully
Radeon FlatPanel support will be here at some point.  I bought the Radeon
and the Dviator just because I wanted to get something that would drive a
flatpanel and still hopefully work under Linux (I have no faith in nVidia
releasing anything.)

I will keep you posted of any success.

Thanks,

Kevin



On October 28, 2001 11:01, Derrik Pates wrote:

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:

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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.

I have been in contact with Mark Vojkovich at nVidia, and he's going to
try to bug the right people to maybe get the info for programming nVidia
cards with DVI/ADC flatpanels, or at least make sure they know who's
interested in this info - in this case, not just Linux-on-Mac people,
but also FreeBSD people, since they also can't use nVidia's binary
drivers. I hope he has some success.

Derrik Pates      |   Sysadmin, Douglas School   |    #linuxOS on EFnet
dpates@dsdk12.net |     District (dsdk12.net)    |    #linuxOS on OPN

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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 23:41:57 -0500, "Kevin B. Hendricks" [off-list ref] said:

k> I went out and bought a Apple 17inch Flat panel and the Radeon Mac Edition
k> card.  I also bought a DVIator which allows my to use the USB ports,
k> power, and the Radeon DVI port to connect to the FlatPanel ADC connector.
k> It works fine under MacOS in 1280x1024.

k> I am now trying to help Ani by testing his driver (Ani does not have a
k> Flat panel to test with) and trying to get things to work.  So hopefully
k> Radeon FlatPanel support will be here at some point.  I bought the Radeon
k> and the Dviator just because I wanted to get something that would drive a
k> flatpanel and still hopefully work under Linux (I have no faith in nVidia
k> releasing anything.)

        I also recently got a Radeon (PCI version) and its DVI port is
connected directly to a Samsung flat panel.  It just works (both the
radeon kernel driver and XFree86 driver from Ani).  Did I get lucky?
(Maybe because I have an Old World machine and use BootX so MacOS may
have set things up?)  Anyway, if I can help in some way to test/dump
things, please let me know.
--
Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
gtgj@pacbell.net

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