Powerbook G4 GPU choice

[Justin Hibbits]

2011/10/4 Любомир Григоров <nm.knife at gmail.com>

> I am looking toward getting a Powerbook G4. Which GPU has more support for
> 3D (nouveau said it was getting artifacts, couldn't find info on ati). I
> prefer the ATI due to double memory.
>
> - NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200  / (NV34)
> - ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 / (R300)
>
> Also, this is the latest PPC notebook out there right? Is there some
> Chinese
> brand out there still doing PPC? I only found an ARM notebook by Genisi. If
> you know of any vendor, please do share.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam)
>

You are correct, those are the latest PowerPC laptop models available,
unfortunately.  No work has been done on the DRI drivers for PowerPC on
FreeBSD.  The most that we have so far is an AGP attachment, so the drivers
compile.  Last time I tried they resulted in a blank screen and insane CPU
load.  This was several months ago though.

- Justin