Using a PC PCI ATI VGA on the Mac
hi, has anyone tried to use a PCI ATI 128 card or any other PC PCI vga on their Mac. The BIOS is probably gonna be incompatible, but since Linux uses a framebuffer it should be ok after initial boot. Is this true ? cheers btw I'm looking for a ATI card in the UK to upgrade my 7500 and the Mac versions are really expensive. -- John
On Sun, Nov 25, John Pagonis wrote:
hi, has anyone tried to use a PCI ATI 128 card or any other PC PCI vga on their Mac. The BIOS is probably gonna be incompatible, but since Linux uses a framebuffer it should be ok after initial boot. Is this true ?
The bios must setup the chip and the card properly, that can not be done in Linux. Maybe you can flash the card. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
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