6500/225 - Quick Qs


Subject: 6500/225 - Quick Qs
From: Joe DiLascio (karthos@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 10:50:19 MST


Greetings

At my place of employment we have several Power Macs -- 6500/225 being the
most prevalant model. I've been trying to get CS 1.2 running and have some
pretty basic questions:

* Is it possible to get better than 640x480x8 on these (ATI 3D Rage II)?
I've played around a bit with kernel boot parameters and XF86Config, but
have had no success (seems I must boot with "no video driver" and the
framebuffer doesn't like being told to use more than 8bpp).
* Is it possible to get sound working (Some model of Crystal chip..)?
* Is ~14 Bogomips normal for that processor? The machine feels slower than
a snail in a tarpit.

I'm pretty familiar with Linux on x86, and not too familiar with Macs in
general, but I'd like to get a few more years out of this hardware -- even
if only as Netscape terminals. We've been having more trouble with MacOS
than we feel is worth the effort, so I said "Why not Linux?".

Thanks much
Joe DiLascio

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