I have had success with a Matrox Millenium card out of a PC, good for MacOS and works for Linux. There are quite a few pitfalls awaiting the unsuspecting on this subject, my experience is that unless the onboard ROM can be changed to talk to the Mac hardware your PC card wont work.
Have a look at http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ and look in the video section cheers david On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:16:05 -0200 Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to buy extra a 4MiB SGRAM SO-DIMM for my Apple Power Macintosh > G3 beige desktop, but they are too expensive. So the reseller > recommended me a PCI ATi Radeon, but it is still more expensive. > > So my question is, can one use some cheaper card than the ATi Radeon > for the Mac? Perhaps a PC part? Obviously, preferrably well-supported > by GNU/Linux and XFree. > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Prefeitura do MunicÃpio de São Paulo > Governo Eletrônico, Telecentros +55 (11) 5080 9647 > http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +55 (11) 5080 9648 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
