On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:26:31PM -0500, Daniel Boyd wrote: > I was reading through the installation instructions for PowerPC > Debian and I saw that it basically said that it would work with any > video card that XFree86 has support for. Is that also true for an > old PCI Power Mac like my Performa 6400? Don't I need an Open > Firmware-enabled card? Correct, but you will only see anything from it after linux has started to boot. I once used a matrox millenium in a Performa 6400, worked fine. > What is the best video card anybody here has been able to get working > in a machine that old? Will a Radeon 9200 Mac Edition work? Sven Luther writes that that card should work under linux without problem here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/10/msg00383.html so I guess it should. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad?
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