Subject: RE: X on 9500
From: Pete Peters (ppeters@vendaria.com)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 12:18:14 MST
I've put a Rage Orion 128 in my 9500. I think they're going for $100-$150. X
works pretty good w/ Xpmac.rev10 (never could get XFree86 v3.3.x to work).
Planning on building XF4.0.2 since it supposedly supports the Rage 128
cards.
Pete
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul K. Landers [mailto:landers@mail.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:33 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: X on 9500
>
>
> I can't run X on my PMac9500 because the ixMicro 8M vid
> card, that was in it when i got it, isn't yet supported (according to
> the docs; " Real Soon Now...").
>
> I have tried, and failed so far, to locate a 2M or 4M version of
> the card. I check various catalogs for an alternative, and only find
ATI
> Radeons for upwards of $200. X is cool, but that's too much.
>
> Any suggestions? Other cards, or anybody got a
> supported card they would part with?
> pkl
>
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