Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 501 from 2015/6/18
From: Funeralopolis
Quote:
eastone schrieb:
The geforce2 card does not have a dvi connector :( but maybe you can use a geforce 5200/5500 or 6200 pci. I think they should work (dvi-i) in such configuration. Perhaps I will flash the 6200 pci and let you know if it actually works. Radeon needs additional power and pins 3 and 11 must be taped.
The GF not having DVI would be ok for me. But if you should flash a GF6200 and this works too it would be also an interesting option.

But why do you need to tape pins 3 and 11? So you can't just take a PC Radeon off the shelf and try it? Is this a 'feature' of the G4 AGP slot?
Also I don't understand why I would need additional power when there is no external power connector on the card. E.g. the AGP Radeon HD4670 (
klick) does not have one. It got only half the memory bandwidth of the X1950 but is 2 (AMD)generations newer with OpenGL 3.3 vs OpenGL 2.1. I doubt it would be much slower on MorphOS and it certainly will be faster in Linux. With OpenGL 3.3 you actually get a decent accelerated Linux desktop, also much less (Big Endian) rendering bugs with the mesa r600 driver compared to the X1950 using mesa r300 driver.
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