On 2018-10-03 08:36:46 +0200 Gabriel Paubert <paub...@iram.es> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 03:06:17PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> Rick Thomas composed on 2016-05-02 15:49 (UTC-0700): > >>> So, in the interest of getting something that works without tinkering: > >>> Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I >>> could purchase and install in my PowerMac-G5 11,2 that wouldn’t have the >>> problem? I don’t need anything fancy. Just enough to run a simple 2D >>> mate or xfce desktop. > >> Some Macs, G4s at least, came with AMD/ATI gfxcards. You ought to be able to >> find one of those to try. > > 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 :-) > Depending of the G5 model. Powermac7,3 had PCI and AGP slots (those with processors up to 2 x 2.7 ghz). Powermac11.2 (those with dual core processors up to "Quad 2.5 ghz" which is a 2 x 2.5 ghz dual core cpus) had PCIe slots. But the AGP graphic cards from powermac G4 couldn't fit in the AGP slot of the powermacG5 (I tried it myself). Bertrand
