Re: Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G4 Processor Upgrade Card with Debian Sarge

[Jeffrey Rolland <jrolland@wiremail.org>]

On Oct 28, 2006, at 8:20 PM, John Schmidt wrote:

> On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:11, Jeffrey Rolland wrote:
> > Hello, all!
> >
> > I have a Power Macintosh 7500/100 running Debian Sarge. I would like
> > to upgrade this from the 100MHz processor it has to a Sonnet
> > Crescendo/PCI G4 1GHz processor upgrade card, but I am not sure it
> > will work with the kernel. I had heard that Yellow Dog Linux won't
> > work with an upgrade card, which sparks my concern.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience upgrading processors with Debian in
> > Old World Mac? I'd really like to do this, but don't feel like
> > wasting $200 on something that won't work.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > --
> > Jeffrey Rolland
> > <jrolland@wiremail.org>
>
> I have an upgrade card in my mac 9500 clone -- it's a 455 MHz G3  
> and it worked
> fine with both Yellow Dog (albeit years ago) and with Debian  
> (currently).
>
> John

Thanks, that helps alleviate my fears.

Sincerely,
--
Jeffrey Rolland
<jrolland@wiremail.org>