On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 01:39:34PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 1:31 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ... > > There was an official Apple Radeon X1900 G5 edition which was PCIe. > > I've also read that people have used a Windows PC to flash Mac > > firmware onto a PC X1950 PCIe card and this card may be more easily > > available/cheaper. > > > > If the OPs machine is PCI-X there are more X1900 options but I've no > > idea how well the Radeon cards work with Linux. > > Based on my experience with my G5, I was able to use a non-Apple > Raedon card and things worked fine. I did not need to flash ROMs or > jump through other hoops. > > For completeness, I picked up a Radeon X1900 GT from eBay. I took out > the existing NVIDIA card and installed the Raedon card. Upon boot I > had a UI.
Good info thanks. So the PC cards work fine in Open Firmware also? I wonder what the apple specific firmware is for? MacOS specific functionality? -- Tony Jones SUSE Kernel Performance Team
