Re: 9600/233 video - what is it?


Subject: Re: 9600/233 video - what is it?
From: Eddie Bindt (eddieb@xs4all.nl)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 12:44:44 MST


On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, nathan r. hruby wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Grant Horwood wrote:
>
> > i have a 9600/233 with no modifications and am installing ydl 2.0 on it.
> > all goes well until xconfig where the installer states that the video card
> > is unrecognized. i've checked apple's hardware specs site and
> > lowendmac.com but all that's said is that it is a "4 MB video card". not
> > very helpful. so my question is, is there a better choice than
> > frambuffer?
> >
>
> Sounds like a IMS Twin Turbo (aka: the imstt) There is support for it,
> but it's certianly not too good. Hit google and do a search for
> "linux ppc imstt" and you should find enough info to get it going.

XF4.1 from ydl2.1 supports the imsttfb in a 9600 ...
I have 2 9650's with imstt cards and even accelerated X works fine ...

Eddie
>
> -n
>



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