Subject: Re: NVidia drivers for Linux on PPC
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Wed May 23 2001 - 19:55:54 MDT
Hi - I was told the following regarding NVIDIA and the YDL 2.0 distro...
"...the GeForce2 card will be restricted for the time being to the open
firmware framebuffer (so basically 8bpp color). We hope to get driver
support as soon as we can."
Jim
ghannon@cspi.com's bits of Wed, 23 May 2001 translated to:
>
>Greetings,
>
>Has anyone been able to get Linux drivers for the NVidia hardware in the
>Power Mac G4's?
>Or been able to rebuild the source RPMs under YDL?
>(I have them, but kernel module doesn't build.)
>
>I did notice on the YellowDog web site that the CS 2.0 release will also
>not have this yet.
>
>Even a workaround that makes the hardware usable would be helpful.
>Any assistance would be appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Gary
>
>ghannon@cspi.com
>
>
>
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