I have an NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT in my PowerMac11,2. It works fine in Debian with nouveau, MATE, and Compton. I’ve tested with a GeForce 6600LE which also worked well. What issues were you having?
I wonder if new nvidia cards will work now that nvidia has released an open source driver… Sent from my iPhone > On May 23, 2022, at 10:32 AM, to...@suse.de wrote: > > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 04:05:13PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> This may help: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers >> >> When I had problems with the NVIDIA card, I took the NVIDIA card out, >> and installed a Radeon card instead. > > As mentioned, the proprietory NVIDIA drivers are x86 only. The only > option is the reverse engineered open-source Nouveau (nv) driver. > > I've had endless issues with the nouveau driver on my Quad G5. It > worked years ago (kernel 3.0 era) but ever since the driver has been > unreliable or just non-operational. > > Tangent: my Quad G5 is in pieces right now (cooling issue). When I > resolve this I wanted to swap in a different card. > > Does anyone have a suggestion as to what *PCI-EXPRESS* card works well > with the current kernel and can support open firmware? > > There was an official Apple Radeon X1900 G5 edition which was PCIe. > I've also read that people have used a Windows PC to flash Mac > firmware onto a PC X1950 PCIe card and this card may be more easily > available/cheaper. > > If the OPs machine is PCI-X there are more X1900 options but I've no > idea how well the Radeon cards work with Linux. > > Thanks > > -- > Tony Jones > SUSE Kernel Performance Team >
