Subject: Re: G4 with Nvidia video card
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 15:33:11 MDT
Denis,
It is not a conspiracy. It is just that these things
take time for Linux developers to get going
with little or no support from the vendors.
ATI Radeon cards are now working...
except an update from Terra Soft in
just a few days..
Nvidia support is just around the corner.
We have provided a driver developer
the hardware needed to make this support
happen. I expect that in a few weeks time
I will have an update.. and perhaps a beta
kernel for folks to try.
Luckily, once NVidia is supported,
it will be much easier to support new cards
released from them. So unless Apple decides
to change video card vendors once again,
we shouldn't have these sorts of 6-month long
waits in the future.
-Dan
On Friday 10 August 2001 15:47, you wrote:
> 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
--Regards, Dan Burcaw Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
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