On 2008-09-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/10, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[ ...] >> Is your card different from stock ? >> Hi Risto, please excuse the delay in responding. > This is of interest for me, too... it reminds me... > > My G3 is a desktop model (233 MHz, rev B) with integrated video: Rage > II something, with 6 MB of RAM. Do the towers really have a separate > PCI card? No, I was mistaken, it is indeed onboard. The video ram could be upgraded from, (If memory serves) the stock 2 Mb to 8 Mb. I added a 3rd party card, with dual head capability. Back in the day that was an expensive video card ! > I installed Ubuntu 6.06.1, obviously in 2006, and it worked fine... > until I put in a PCI card (USB 2.0). That caused xorg to fail. It > complained about INVALID I/O ALLOCATION, but I'm not sure whether it > is relevant to the problem. It seemed to try to allocate memory > already used by the USB PCI card. I wonder if that bug has been > fixed... Hm. I'm going to pull the Belkin USB 1.0 card I have in another G3 pizza box, and put in this one. I guess we'll see if Xorg handles it OK. I'll let you know how it goes. > Another problem with this machine model is the text frame buffer mode > not being usable because of vertical lines where the text 'lives'. Hm I didn't have this problem either. > Stephen, what version of xorg are you using? Do you have other PCI > cards installed than the video cards? 1:7.1.0-19 > Actually all this is a bit aside from the original subject, maybe > worth a thread of its own though... Aw go for it, install Xorg. 8-D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
