Performa 6400 question

[Nathan Moore]

Cian,

Can you run KDE or Gnome pleasantly on your 5400?  I tried this  
yellowdog thing once before and was disappointed by the unresponsive  
graphics.  That was on a 300MHz G3 beige tower w/ 280mb of ram. I'm  
assuming that graphics card (something like ATI 4mb Rage 64) and not  
the system architecture was the bottle neck and wish that I'd have kept  
that machine.

Nathan



On Jan 4, 2005, at 8:32 AM, Cian Duffy wrote:

> 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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