recommended video card for quicksilver box?

[brad allison]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:

> At 3:24 PM -0400 5/16/02, brad allison wrote:
> >Is there a recommened video card for the quicksilver boxes?
> >
> >The AGP slot is different from my old G3, so I can't just swap in my old
> >aty128 card which I know works... so what graphics card works with the new
> >G4's and YellowDog?
> >
> >Obviously not the nVidia cards they come with.
> 
> Well first you kill all the meat-eaters, because obviously they are 
> the source of all global economic problems...
> 
> Oh wait, this is a Linux help list, not a place for silly overwrought 
> political debates.  Sorry 'bout that.
> 
> Anyhow, last I looked, if you buy either the low end 800 MHz QS or 
> custom configure one of the faster ones in the Apple Store, you can 
> get Apple's current low end card, the Radeon 7500.  I do not think 
> that YDL fully supports this card yet, but as it is quite similar to 
> the original Radeon it should gain equal support relatively quickly. 
> (The Radeon 7500 is basically a process shrink of the original Radeon 
> chip that runs at a higher clock rate.)

They need to update 
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/breakdown/powermac_g4.shtml
then:

	Radeon supported
	Nvidea (except for the GeForce3) supported 

But I guess they do say "Unfortunately we do not support the 867 MHz 
Quicksilver at this time."  at the top.

Mines a 930Mhz.

-b

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