With great trepidation, I have to say that it's probably a good idea
if he tries Ubuntu 6.06. It, to the best of my ability, comes with
Rage 128 drivers on PPC. It won't run too much, but it should install
quickly (and be tiny to boot).
With much love,
Illirik Smirnov
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jesse <jesselorenstj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Listers,
>>
>> My son the Linux maven, has been trying various distros on a B&W G3. His
>> main complaint has been a problem with video card driver functionality (he
>> says it's a "Rage 128" card).
>>
>> Any wisdom here for him?
>
> God yes. Has he tried slackintosh? I love it I use it. I'm a complete
> bozo.....
>
> To the point. Ok, bsd has an actual driver patch for this systems Video card.
> However... They have a pci radeon that works with this system on eBay and
> it's cheap. also on slack the guy who ported this version of slackware, did a
> decent workaround for this card as well(using a framebuffer)
>
> However you will have no decent 3d unless you upgrade your card
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Barry
>>
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