On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:27 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > From: Adam Jackson <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:19:37 -0400 > > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 23:18 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > The vesa driver only works on i386/amd64. Where does this leave users > > > of other architectures? Quite a few PowerPC Mac's have nvidia hardware. > > > > There's no deep reason for this to be true. nvidia cards with PC BIOSes > > would work fine under x86emu, assuming we emulate enough of the system > > ROM calls. And nv card BIOSes tend not to call system ROM services that > > much. > > Well, I was thinking specifically about the origional graphics > hardware that shipped with these machines, which will have an Open > Firmware ROM.
nouveau supports those, I'm reasonably sure. If it doesn't, Linux also has offb for Open Firmware devices. Your OS may vary. - ajax
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