Holger's success emboldened me to try it on a couple of my own PowerMac
machines.
It worked flawlessly on my G4 test machine.
rick@macswell:~$ ( lspci ; lspci -n ) | sort
0000:00:0b.0 0600: 106b:002d
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 AGP
0000:00:10.0 0300: 1002:5046
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128
PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS
0001:10:0b.0 0600: 106b:002e
0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 PCI
0001:10:12.0 0101: 1095:0680 (rev 02)
0001:10:12.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133
Host Controller (rev 02)
0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 03)
0001:10:17.0 ff00: 106b:0022 (rev 03)
0001:10:18.0 0c03: 106b:0019
0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:10:19.0 0c03: 106b:0019
0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0002:20:0b.0 0600: 106b:002f
0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 Internal PCI
0002:20:0e.0 0c00: 11c1:5811
0002:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323
0002:20:0f.0 0200: 106b:0021 (rev 01)
0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC
(Sun GEM) (rev 01)
rick@macswell:~$
It failed, as expected (since it's got a 2.6.17 kernel) on my "beige
G3" oldworld test machine. I'll try again when there's a 2.6.18 kernel
available. (The problem is in the kernel or initrd, not the g- i on
this machine.)
I got the powerpc64 version and tried it on my dual-core G5 with the
Nvidia graphics card. It failed to go into graphics mode and looped
forever spewing error messages too fast for me to get them down. I'll
go to the wiki page and get the instructions for doing it in test
mode. But it will have to wait til I've had some sleep.
Specs from the MacOS-X "System Profiler" app on the video from the G5:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600LE:
Chipset Model: GeForce 6600LE
Type: Display
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0142
Revision ID: 0x00a4
ROM Revision: 2149
Displays:
Cinema:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Display:
Status: No display connected