On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Gary wrote:

>
> I'm at my wit's end with this beige G3 (300 Mhz, 30GB IDE hard disk,
> 384MB RAM) that I've been prepping to give away. I've tried installing
> both Linux and OS X 10.3 on it, but run into  what seems to be the
> same roadblock.
>
> The video card on it is an IMS Twin Turbo, which I need to use since
> it has a VGA out port on it, and I don't have any sort of adapter to
> convert the native Mac video out to VGA.

Fuggedaboutit. The IMS card flat out will not run in OS X.

Vastly less hassle to simply get a $10 Mac-VGA converter; ask on the  
LEM Swaplist.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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