recommended video card for quicksilver box?

[brad allison]

According to yellowdog's website 
(http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/devices.shtml) 
"Matrox Millennium I, II, Mystique and G200 video cards are supported 
(drivers/video/matroxfb.c) "

Since I couldn't get the nVidia card working and I have a couple extra 
Matrox G200 AGP cards (from Intel boxes) I tried replacing the nVidia card 
in my Quicksilver.

I tried to boot off the YellowDog CD with the Matrox card in the machine 
and got no video sync out of it.

-b


On Thu, 16 May 2002, brad allison wrote:

> 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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