Performa 6400 question

[Cian Duffy]

Well, I was talking about video cards - they do need to be Mac
versions unless the driver supports coldstarting the card - I have no
idea if any X drivers do.

However, as goes any other card, Linux will use it as it is. The same
can be said of on MIPS boxen, where Linux can use cards that IRIX
refuses due to them being x86 cards.

Cian


On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:22:46 -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich
<daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> Cian was not talking about video cards or NICs, just bootable cards such
> as SCSI or ATA or FireWire. Macs ignore card BIOSes and just look for
> F-Code. Without F-Code, as in the case of all the PC NICs YDL users use,
> it's up to the OS (Linux) to supply a driver, which is not a problem.
> Installing 4.0 isn't much harder than installing 3.0, the only real
> problem being that the installer will choke on installing the bootloader
> and won't create a non-root user, nor auto-enable graphical login. Both of
> those things can be done easily after the installer chokes. As for NICs,
> TerraSoft only enables drivers for a couple of chipsets in their kernels.
> You can take a look at which ones after installing, but you can't go wrong
> with Tulip-based cards. IIRC, the other enabled drivers are 8139too,
> ne2k_pci, and something from DEC.
> 
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:37:45 -0600, Nathan Moore 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.
> >>
> >> Cian
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