Hi.

I'm currently operating a PowerMac7,3 and it's working well.
However, I have 2 PM11,2 sitting here as well and as I recall there was some work being done for supporting 11,2?
What's the state there?


Cheers,
Manfred

They are pretty much supported.

You need:

- a Radeon GFX card, either a genuine Apple one (rare) or a PC card with AtomBIOS (X1?00, HD???? see list on morphos-team.net
With a PC card you want to keep the Apple NVIDIA card in the system.

- A NIC, RTL8168 is the common solution

You get (compare to an older G5 at the same clock):

- little more performance
- a little less power consumption


You can go all in and install 1 CPU from a Quad into a 2.0 or 2.3 model which will not only give you 2.5GHz but also the 1.25GHz system clock of the Quad without the insane noise and heat of a real one.

OK, cool.

I'll check out what's in those G5s (don't know exactly, one runs Linux the other MacOSX 10.5).

Is it just supported with MorphOS 3.19 and can/could I just swap the HDD (SDD) (theoretically if the gfx card works, they're both just 2Ghz versions.)?

[ Edited by asrael22 09.10.2025 - 17:56 ]

If there is any supported Radeon present it should just boot.

> as I recall there was some work being done for supporting 11,2?
> What's the state there?

Since you last asked 6 years ago right after the MorphOS 3.12 release, a least the following was improved:

"Devs/Audiomodes/I2s
- Disable internal amplifier if device is connected to HP/line out of PMac11,2/PMac12,1/iMacG5
- Control headphone mute based on plug status on PMac11,2 as well"
https://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes/3.15

"Quark
- Fixed detection of some MacOF Bios R500/X19xx PCIe cards on PMac11,2 G5 machines"
https://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes/3.18

> Is it just supported with MorphOS 3.19 [...]?

What do you mean?

Quote:
Yes, you don't need to do anything extra and all the "unofficial" support is there build-in, so swapping or cloning the HDD/SSD should work (except for the registration of course).


[ Edited by jPV 10.10.2025 - 07:05 ]

For the least amount of headaches, find a 1900 PPC Mac card.


PM 11,2 and MorphOS.


The 1117 single processor systems can be updated to a 2.5GHz processor:


2.5 update.

[ Edited by matt3 10.10.2025 - 04:26 ]

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Excellent. At least someone has the overview. I asked pretty much the same question. :D

> 2.5 update.

Unfortunately, he keeps repeating his "G5 has SATA2 and SATA3 ports" nonsense, while in reality they are both SATA1 with one of them seemingly being more forward compatible than the other. Why doesn't he ask himself the question how a computer from 2005 should be able to support a standard published in 2009?
Also, opposed to what he tells in this video, there was never a 2.7 GHz PCIe-based G5.
And why is he running Elude's Dust demo directly on MorphOS yet he claims it's running through WHDLoad (thus UAE)?
Besides, to nitpick, the MorphOS demo mode is 30 minutes, not 20, and it's also slowing down in addition and not just showing the nag requester.

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Seems this one has a NVIDIA A386 installed.
So I take it this is not supported and I need a card from the supported one at the link you posted?
I think I didn't get what you meant with "With a PC card you want to keep the Apple NVIDIA card in the system"?
You mean there would then be two gfx cards in there?

> 2.5 update

In that video he doesn't seem to have another NIC installed. Does the internal NIC not work?