Strange graphics issues on G5 with NVIDIA 6600

[Jason Bacon]

This is what I have:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-Genuine-Apple-PowerMac-ATI-DVI-Video-Card-102A1360101-P-N-109-A13600-01-/184366621028

It's actually AGP, though the seller has it listed as PCI.

I didn't put any serious effort into resolving the resolution issues, so 
it might be possible to get it working beyond 640x480. Or maybe there's 
another card that someone on this list can verify works well?

Best,

     JB

On 1/11/21 7:34 PM, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 3:54 PM Jason Bacon <bacon4000 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bacon4000 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Yeah, ppc works remarkably well with FreeBSD.  If we just had Firefox
>     and Thunderbird, I could actually use my iMac G5 for my daily work
>     routine.
>
>     The nv driver is deprecated and gets very little attention these
>     days.
>     You might be better off swapping in a Radeon card.  Not sure which
>     one
>     would work well with ppc.  The one in my PowerMac G5 only seems to
>     support 640x480 under FreeBSD 12.1.
>
>
> I recall having a Radeon 9600 XT before (that's what my eBay history 
> shows) and working reasonably well. Unfortunately, I now noticed that 
> this other G5 model I have only takes PCI-X and there don't seem to be 
> any ATI cards for it! At least not that I can find. Do they have 
> different firmware, or was it just a labeling issue and any card will 
> work?
>
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