Performa 6400 question

[Cian Duffy]

I don't think so - I've got a 3Com Vortex in my 5400 - it doesn't work
on MacOS but does on BeOS and mkLinux. I've got a card from the same
batch in my Intel desktop.

They've got a mindshare bias though - Mac users used to use Farallon
and Kensington cards with the DEC21040 chipset more than anything else
:-)

Cian


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:37:45 -0600, Nathan Moore <nmoore at physics.umn.edu> wrote:
> 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.
> >
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