Re: Best Linux for a B&W G3?

2011-12-29 Thread broosg
Has he tried MintPPC? I have that running on a B&W G3 with an ATI 9200 video card and a G4 accelerator so it seams to handle odd hardware pretty well. It is based on Ubuntu 10, so pretty up to date. Bruce - Original Message - From: Barry Levine To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: S

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-16 Thread broosg
I like the SATA drive idea as well. A couple of weeks ago I found out you can have it both ways. There is a simple cable adapter made that you connect to the 68-pin SCSI card and it leads out 4 SATA cables. I have not found anyone who has tried these, but the discussion on this web page indic

Radeon 9800 - 128 vs. 256 MB VRAM

2010-07-16 Thread broosg
I have been looking at the Radeon 9800 Pro video cards on Ebay and see some that are 128MB models and some that are 256MB models.  Sellers claim both with boot OS9.2.2, which I would like to be able to do, just in case.  All claim excellent 3D acceleration (but not in OS 9), core graphics,  and wh