Subject: Re: Formac ProFormance III
From: David Reynolds (dreynolds@macaddict.com )
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 09:02:05 MDT
ATI and Voodoo3 are good for CS 1.2--I've been using a Voodoo3 3000 PCI in a
G4 and I'm pretty happy with it. To do easy X config for it, check out
Xautoconfig at http://dev.linuxppc.org/~trini/. It had me up and running in
a very short time with the Voodoo3.
Best,
David
-- David Reynolds Executive Editor, Technology MacAddict "A better machine. A better magazine." -- > > At 10:55 Uhr +0100 14.04.2000, Stephen Hill wrote: >> Are there drivers for the Formac ProFormance III. I want to use one in the >> G4 I'm gonna buy but I also want it to work properly in Linux. > > I also have a PF3 card in my beige G3. For now, you're basically out > of luck -- in some ways I wish I hadn't bought it. It's a great card, > but it's basically a Permedia3 chipset clone (you can get Permedia2 > and I think Permedia3 support, but it doesn't seem to work with the > card), and a Formac developer recently said rather bluntly in the > macnews.de forum that they aren't interested in developing a PPC > Linux driver. > > You'd probably be much better off getting an ATI or Voodoo3 card > IMHO. At least you can use them both with little to no trouble under > Linux and Mac OS. The Voodoo3 support isn't quite done yet AFAIK (you > have to get a special X server for it at the moment), but some people > apparently are using it and are happy. Your best best in terms of > support is probably an ATI card of some kind, or at least that's my > guess. > > cya > > John > -- > > John Grantham | Dipl.-Designer (FH) > | Homepage http://surf.to/multimedia > | Linux for Macs: http://www.maclinux.de/
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