On Jul 4, 2012, at 3:02 PM, David Adcock wrote:
Also I recently purchased a (used) G5-2.3GHz-2Core. Probably MANY
of these
units will be coming on the market as leases expire, etc. An
earlier post
appears to be completely correct: Debian on the 64-bit architecture
does not
seem to be well supported. The unix-ish part of the machine seems
to run
quite well (and FAST!), but high-order features - mainly nouveau -
are nowhere
near working, so I have to ssh into it and run exclusively via
command line.
Alas, most of these G5 Macs have the GeForce 6600 card, and may be
condemned
to inadequate nouveau support -or- purchase of a non-nVidia graphics
card.
Hi Dave,
This worries me. I have a similar machine. Currently it's running
MacOS-X, but I plan to convert it to Debian soon. As with yours, it
has the GeForce 6600 card.
Do you have a recommendation for what video card I should get to
replace it? My video needs are minimal, I just need to be able to run
iceweasel and xterm and a few 2D-gui system administration packages.
Thanks!
Rick
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