Subject: Re: G4 with Nvidia video card
From: Jonathan Mergy (mergy@natus.com)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 15:59:31 MDT
yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com writes:
>I have a 533Mz Mac G4 with Nvidia GeForce2 video driving a 19"
>Diamond Pro monitor, purchased in February. With both Mac OS 9.1 and
>Mac OS X the picture is excellent. I installed YDL 2.0 in June only
>to find that, except for console text, the picture is unusable. I
>then read the "Engineers' Notes" which said the Nvidia card is not
>supported. Linuxppc.org even goes further:
>"NVidia cards in the new Apple G4's do not work. NVidia has not been
>pro-active about supporting their hardware under Linux. If you want
>to run linux on your machine, DO NOT BUY A MACHINE WITH A NVIDIA
>CARD."
>
>Does anyone know what is going on? After 6 months, why is there still
>no video driver for Nvidia? Is this a conspiracy to force all owners
>of new Macs who want Unix to use Mac OS X instead of Linux? IMHO the
>present Aqua interface to Mac OS X is unacceptable and that is why I
>am considering Linux+MOL but Mac OS X 10.1, due in September may be
>acceptable.
>Denis Jarvis
>
I feel the same way (second paragraph). I have a DualG4 500 with YDL2 and
MOL and it is the best setup I have ever had.
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jonathan mergy
mergy@natus.com
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