Performa 6400 question

[Nathan Moore]

thanks.  Do network cards have similar mac-pc bias or will any old PCI 
card do?

Nathan

On Jan 3, 2005, at 11:53 PM, Cian Duffy wrote:

>> If I can, would Linux be able to use something as big as a modern ATI
>> rage128 32mb PCI video card?  I understand system bus is only 40mhz,
>> but assume videocard is buys most of the time with resizing windows 
>> (in
>> KDE for example).
>
> Yes, but you would need to ensure its a Macintosh version of the card,
> or at the worst, a PC version of the card flashed with the Macintosh
> BIOS, or else the machine will not be able to start it.
>
> You might want to try using YellowDog 3.x on that machine rather than
> 4.x, as 3.x comes with the required tools to boot on Old World PPC
> machines.
>
> Cian
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