ATI drivers and Mac Power PC

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 23:39 -0800, R.C. wrote:
> I have a Mac G5 PowerPc Dual Core.
> 
> I installed Fedora8 and all went well.   All appears to be up and 
> running with no problems expect starting xserver.
> 
> I have an ATI Radeon x1900 Video card.  ATI tells me there are no 
> drivers supported for the Power Pc platform.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to run Linux on this machine with this card?
> 
> I desperately need to run a Linux based program and hoped this would be 
> then answer.

You could try current xf86-video-ati Git; it basically supports your
card, though there may be issues with the low-level initialization of
the card. There's also xf86-video-radeonhd, but I have no idea what the
status of that is on powerpc.

Also, if OpenFirmware puts up an image on the card on bootup, the
xf86-video-fbdev driver should work with the kernel OFfb driver.


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