Strange graphics issues on G5 with NVIDIA 6600

[Julio Merino]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 3:54 PM Jason Bacon <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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