Hey! I'm back after a quite long (and unintentional) break. So, I need some advice on what to do to get myself a third monitor running on my G4 Dual 867 mirrored drive doors model. I'd like to be able to just use a generic PCI video card, but I am not quite sure if this will be supported by Panther.
Thanks!
Radeon 7000 PCI is fully supported in Panther
It really comes down to what you mean by generic video card. As long as it is a Rage or above, it should be fine. Older than that and it may work, but it won't be 2D accelerated. You can pick up a cheap PC Radeon 7000 and flash it over, or buy some cheap Mac card.
I'm fairly certain that any card you use will have to have a Mac-compatible BIOS on it. You won't be able to just grab a PC-intended card and stuff it in there, even if it's a chipset that OS X supports.
Flashing a Radeon 7000 is probably your cheapest option. Another thought would be to try to find one of the Rage 128 cards that shipped with the B&W/Yikes. (You don't get Quartz Extreme over PCI anyway, and if my experience with a B&W is any indication the Radeon isn't that much faster then the 128.)
--Peace
Greetings,
I Agree that the Radeon 7000 isn't "much" faster than the Rage 128, but I think that the 7000 supports dual monitors? But, you will be spliting the 32MB of VRAM between the 2 monitors... Anyway, I would go for more VRAM (16MB vs. 32MB)
Can't hurt...
Cheers!
I could be wrong.... But you might like the possibility of FOUR monitors, Right?
BTW: I have a Radeon 8500 AGP and a 7000 PCI in my system, and It works great!
Well I'd say go for a Radeon 7000 PCI Edition... in my personal experience it's MUCH faster than a Rage 128... of course that personal experience revolves around an iMac 600 and an old eMac...with a Radeon 7500. Still... close enough.