rough guess - use a second grafics board that boots
and then use XF86 to use the card.
but this might only succeed if the drivers do NOT rely on the BIOS.
for workarounds and deeper experience, plese watch the Xpert list.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Geenen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 00:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Xpert]getting intel hardware to work on apple oldworld g3
>
>
> i have a diamond stealth 64 vram with an IBM RGB526CF ramdac chip
> that works under intel
> now i want to get it to run on my g3 apple oldworld mac
> i initially thought that the card did not run because of a
> non supported
> ramdac chip but that is probably not the case.
> The main problem seems to be that the firmware of my apple does not
> understand this card since it is made to run under intel.
> is there a way to get it to work on my apple g3 running
> mandrake ppc 8.2
> the tip i got to solve this problem was
>
> The only method I can see to bring up a PC card on a Mac
> (though I have not yet tried this) is to use a PC and dump a VGA BIOS
> image and then emulate that image on the Mac (hacking it into int10
> perhaps, which will use x86emu).
>
> i looked around (google) to find a description of this
> procedure but could
> not find any. Can someone help me to take the next step ??
>
> tia
> Thomas Geenen
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