Gabriel Paubert composed on 2018-10-03 09:47 (UTC+0200): > On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 02:45:56AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Gabriel Paubert composed on 2018-10-03 08:36 (UTC+0200): >> > Trouble is, if I remember correctly, all G4 were delivered with PCI or >> > AGP, >> > and all G5 with PCIe. It won't be exactly "Plug and Play", and for once it >> > will be the plug¹ part that will be difficult :-) >> Was AMD making PCIe cards specially for only Apple, or do the same cards for >> PCs >> work? Lots of Dells used AMD/ATI PCIe 8-12 years ago, so used should be >> plentiful, aka cheap enough to try, under $20USD or so. > Sorry, I was wrong, actually only the last generation G5 (the ones with > the dual core chips, i.e., 970MP) had PCIe, all others had an AGP slot. > However, as far as I know, Mac graphics cards always had different firmwares: > Forth based OF instead of x86-only BIOS. I wonder if Apple gave up being different in that regard on the switch to Intel CPU and PCIe video bus. All the PowerPC Macs I had are now gone. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
