Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:34:03 -0800 From: Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net> To: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange graphics issues on G5 with NVIDIA 6600 Message-ID: <CADyfeQUAD5Kx8Q53yubptJnzA8La9a2Ry5m5fpb2erb33zcpZQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <bd68befb-cfbb-c7e3-c861-7cb0e115987a@gmail.com> References: <CADyfeQU7d_zJ539wBFJiKH3Pme1jFbUr1MkqszW1mbPa4yVBmw@mail.gmail.com> <bd68befb-cfbb-c7e3-c861-7cb0e115987a@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 3:54 PM Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, ppc works remarkably well with FreeBSD. If we just had Firefox > and Thunderbird, I could actually use my iMac G5 for my daily work routine. > > The nv driver is deprecated and gets very little attention these days. > You might be better off swapping in a Radeon card. Not sure which one > would work well with ppc. The one in my PowerMac G5 only seems to > support 640x480 under FreeBSD 12.1. > I recall having a Radeon 9600 XT before (that's what my eBay history shows) and working reasonably well. Unfortunately, I now noticed that this other G5 model I have only takes PCI-X and there don't seem to be any ATI cards for it! At least not that I can find. Do they have different firmware, or was it just a labeling issue and any card will work? -- jmmv.dev
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