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Vojin Vidanovic Every PPC Mac is possible target
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John Holt The limiting factor is the number of compatible graphics cards available.
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Vojin Vidanovic RadeonHD driver would fix that one
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Vojin Vidanovic Until then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7JtLlKq8Kw
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John Holt I need the Gforce support for my old Lamp Shade iMacs.
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Vojin Vidanovic No Gforce pon MOS, sadly. I need RadeonHd support for SAM460ex, so gfx user requests before MOS 4.x
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Is it some new kind of spam bot?

Could some admin delete this thread please?

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No, its discussion on facebook.

nVIDIA and RadeonHD drivers are really week knee.

Bounties, ideas anything constructive can be discussed, instead of avoiding the topic.

If your account wasn't hacked and you wrote the initial post yourself... then please know it makes no sense at all for me. Specially when I see words about police helicopter... sigh.

Please avoid posting such trash in the future.

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Yes I did, and no account was hacked.

Sadly, you cant understand parallel man has name John Holt
as one of most famous reggae singers, now gone. Tune speaks
about hash reality of police persecution.

Nevermind, modern Mr. Holt needs nVIDIA driver since he has PPC Mac
and its hard to get proper Radeon - that is leftover of full PPC Mac support.

I do need Radeon 4000HD driver once SAM460ex is out, since onboard gfx is better not mentioned, S3 Virge is higher performer.

Hope now you can get the trash.

Keep posting request will not make it happen. Sorry. Get a cheap Radeon 9600 card on E-bay and be happy for a while.

Please improve support on currently supported gfx chipsets before extending to even more hardware

Lack of texture transformations comes to my mind, as does lack of shaders, those might be better implemented on more limited range of chipsets first (and yes, I know not all supported chipsets can support shaders at all)

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No, thanks. Especially because I know not of PCI-E such card.

Surely, making a reasonable request (how do you plan to support SAM460ex when RadeonHD is its default card beyond integrated 2D) is needed.

I am also willing to donate towards its goal, which is not my personal benefit,
but of all high end G5 Macs and SAM460ex, as well as only way for MorphOS to advance in graphics area.

Isnt there a spare PCI slot where you can insert PCI Radeon?

Anyway, it is all premature because MorphOS 3.6 is not out.

> Get a cheap Radeon 9600 card on E-bay and be happy for a while.

I don't think that makes sense for the Sam460, especially as OS4 doesn't properly support that card.

Sorty, got the machines mixed up.

A cheap 9250 then.

> making a reasonable request (how do you plan to support SAM460ex when RadeonHD
> is its default card beyond integrated 2D) is needed. I am also willing to donate towards
> its goal, which is not my personal benefit, but of all high end G5 Macs and SAM460ex

Drivers for Radeon HD cards won't benefit G5 Macs, as you were told already:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=1215&start=94

> Isnt there a spare PCI slot where you can insert PCI Radeon?

It's probably not spare with most Sam460 boards ;-)

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Why not use the X1 PCI-E slot?
There are 2D video cards that can utilize this interface.

>>> Isnt there a spare PCI slot where you can insert PCI Radeon?

>> It's probably not spare with most Sam460 boards ;-)

> Why not use the X1 PCI-E slot? There are 2D video cards that can utilize this interface.

There's even Radeon up to HD6450 for PCIe x1 but the question was for a card that is already fully supported by MorphOS now (for whatever reason). There is no such PCIe card of any kind (even though there're PCIe cards with R300 GPU, which are X300, X550 and X1050 with RV370 and X600 with RV380).

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Interesting point.
I also like the four head X1XXX based FireMV 2400 (again, not supported).
One of those in the X1 slot and something similar in the PCI or PCI-E X4 slot and you have the potential for 6 to 8 concurrent displays (again, not yet supported).

> I also like the four head X1XXX based FireMV 2400 (again, not supported).

The FireMV 2400 (which besides PCIe x1 also comes as PCI version btw) has the RV380, which is X600, not X1xxx. But as the question was about a PCI card that's already supported (in theory at least), the FireMV 2200 PCI with RV280 would be more apt.

> One of those in the X1 slot and something similar in the PCI or PCI-E X4 slot

Using the PCIe x1 slot disables onboard SATA, so you'd need a SATA card in the PCI slot, which only leaves the PCIe x4 slot (with x16 connector).

Then I was misinformed about the FireMV 2400, but the RV380 could be easily supported.

The FireMV 2250 PCI could also be interesting.

I am, however, confused as my info list the FireMV 2250 as an RV516 GPU.

Still, quite a range of possibilities in these options, eh?

[ Edited by Jim 05.03.2014 - 01:59 ]

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Sadly no, PCI port goes to SATA controller because onboard SATA has only one device.

You say premature, I say think about tommorow.

onboard gfx is 2D only and slower then old school Parmedia.

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Why, I believe high end Macs have PCI-E?

Ok, then its SAM460ex thing, and something anyway has to be done
for transition to x86, or you believe we shall use Radeons 9600/9800 and 1xxx for ever? Somedays I feel stupid I have gave my ATI All In wonder Radon PCIE 2006 away since it has chip MOS could possibly support (1300 series). Should I get it back?

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That is correct. Since I have SATA card and onboard SATA is one device only anyway, all I could use is PCIE x4 card which is not monster (limited space) or low profile and PCIE x1 card, but I am not sure does Uboot supports it as primary display.

This are all REALLY serious question day next MOS version pops up and I try to install it.

Radeon 9250 is difficult to find, even I would like to stick it next to my Radeon 6870HD on X1000 just to see some 3D.

> Then I was misinformed about the FireMV 2400

Maybe you confused it with the FireMV 2200 PCIe (x16), which has the RV370 and would thus be similar to the X1050.

> The FireMV 2250 PCI could also be interesting.

I was not aware that there is a PCI version of that card, just PCIe x1 and x16.

> I am, however, confused as my info list the FireMV 2250 as an RV516 GPU.

This seems to be correct. FireMV model naming seems even less transparent than for normal Radeon series.

>> Drivers for Radeon HD cards won't benefit G5 Macs, as you were told already:
> https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=1215&start=94

> Why, I believe high end Macs have PCI-E?

As you have been told several times now in various threads, the last Radeon card that came with a PPC ROM was the X1900 (which is probably flashable onto x86 ROM X1950 cards), and the PPC Mac OpenFirmware lacks an x86 emulator so can't initialize non-PPC cards.

> you believe we shall use Radeons 9600/9800 and 1xxx for ever?

What I do or don't believe doesn't have any impact on the MorphOS Team's future plans anyway.

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Well, according to this page you can use both the PCI and PCI-E 1x slot if you aren't interested in using the single on-board SATA 2 connector:

"FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Which setup are possible with the board?

It's possible to use the Sam460ex in one of these setup:

PCI-Express 16x slot + PCI slot + PCI-Express 1x slot
PCI-Express 16x slot + PCI slot + SATA2 port"

So why not use a proper PCI-E card for SATA instead of a PCI card? That way you would free up the conventional PCI slot for a 9250 GFX card!

Also, reading up on the Sam again, made me realize how badly cripled this HW really is. Not only is it weak performance-wise, its design is astonishingly cripled. And it's very expensive, and there aren't any available anymore from the manufacturer. Makes me wonder why a MorphOS port was even considered.


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Well, Acube sells (sold, they have no Sam's in stock, and I guess it remains to bee seen if they will make some new ones at some point?) new Sam 460 systems with Radeon 9250 PCI! From their webshop:

Complete system built with:
AmigaOS4.1 pre-installed
Sam460ex - Lite
CPU CLOCK 1 Ghz
Case LC-Power 2039MB-MBS
512 MB DDR2
Radeon 9250 PCI - 128 MB
HD SATA2 Western Digital 500 GB
DVD burner
+ Envy24HT sound card

Maybe you can ask them if they can sell you just the GFX card, if e-bay is too difficult for you to use?

This is one of the best GFX cards available for OS4 + Sam (since there is no AGP in the Sam, no such cards can be used). It has proper 2D acceleration, 3D acceleration and Overlay support. No Radeon HD solution for OS4 offers that, they don't even have a v1.0 of the 2D acceleration enabled driver yet.


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Why don't you read the answer that people gives to your questions? Mac PPC computers require special PPC ROM's on the GFX cards. The firmware in the Pegasos 2 computer for example, has a x86 emulator that can execute the x86 code that's in "normal" GFX cards ROM's, but no PPC Mac has that, and when Apple dropped PPC and went x86, the market for GFX cards with those special PPC ROM's went away. AFAIK, the Radeon X1900 is the last/best option for PPC Macs.


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Well, properly supported Radeon 9xxx cards beats Radeon HD cards with only display any day of the week! And you must take into account that the Sam is very under-powered and wouldn't be able to make full use of those Radeon HD cards anyway, so I'd say that a Radeon 9xxx card is a very good match for the Sam.

As stated in another thread, graphics cards can be initialized without firmware.
This is not a new development.

If you doubt me, plug a PC Voodoo3 card into your Mac and boot MorphOS.

But there are disadvantages.
First, you would no longer have access to OpenFirmware, the card could not be initialized until the OS booted.
Further, you would probably have to select/setup the driver before the card was installed requiring an alternate video card for set up.
Second, a card without OpenFirmware will never work with OSX, so dual booting goes out the window.

Still, there are two more cards we haven't adopted yet, the X800XT and the X1900GT (AGP and PCI-E respectively) have Apple specific versions.

And the SAM460 can support virtually any PC PCI-E video card.


[ Edited by Jim 05.03.2014 - 11:58 ]