video card for Powermac 9500

Longman, Bill longman at sharplabs.com
Tue Oct 26 12:19:36 MDT 2004


> >>I've always had succes with NVIDIA cards. You can probably 
> get a PCI 
> >>version of the older GForce cards for very little. The good 
> >>thing about 
> >>NVIDIA cards is that they release the source for their 
> >>drivers.... Check 
> >>newegg.com or mwave.com for prices.
> > 
> > 
> > Well, not completely. NVidia provide the wrapper code but 
> the internals are
> > still closed. Better than ATI, though, that don't even do that much.
> 
> And those closed internals are working on linux on PPC ? I 
> was under the 
> impression they only worked on x86 architecture. Maybe things changed 
> since last time I checked ?

Not that I'm aware of....but I have no NVidia cards in my PPC's so I'm not
one to say.


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