PowerMac G5
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2236 from 2003/2/24
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    koszer wrote:


    Why keep the Voodoo?




    A Voodoo is the only way to get a dual monitor setup with MorphOS 3.11.

    But AFAIK noone has ever succeeded in getting a Radeon+Voodoo working in a G5 (no probs on PMacG4) and the real news here is that the Voodoo will work if it's the only (supported) GFX card.
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    NewSense
    Posts: 1475 from 2012/11/10
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    I still have a Radeon 9200 128MB (Mac) PCI GFX card that I used when I had only got a Nvidia AGP card in my PowerMac G5 and that worked OK in the PCI slot, now whether that will also work in combination with a Radeon 9600 AGP card that I've since acquired I don't know, but it might - one of these days I might try it, but I'm far too busy ATM to try that out, sadly.
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12074 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > I still have a Radeon 9200 128MB (Mac) PCI GFX card that I used [...] in my PowerMac G5 [...] PCI slot,
    > now whether that will also work in combination with a Radeon 9600 AGP card [...] I don't know, but it might

    MorphOS cannot use more than one Radeon card at a time. That's a driver restriction.
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12074 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    Addendum:

    >> I still have a Radeon 9200 128MB (Mac) PCI GFX card that I used [...] in my
    >> PowerMac G5 [...] PCI slot, now whether that will also work in combination
    >> with a Radeon 9600 AGP card [...] I don't know, but it might

    > MorphOS cannot use more than one Radeon card at a time. That's a driver restriction.

    ...or can it?

    "If legacy W3D support is important [...], you can also stick R9xxx card in G5 machines to have both raw speed and classic compatibility. One of my friends did this kind of solution."
    https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=43689&forum=45#832416


    Edit: On the other hand, "raw speed" may very well not refer to a primary R300+ AGP graphics card but to the G5 CPU, which would mean the R200 graphics card is actually the only graphics card in the system.

    [ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 10.04.2020 - 20:33 ]
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    jPV
    Posts: 2026 from 2003/2/24
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    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    Edit: On the other hand, "raw speed" may very well not refer to a primary R300+ AGP graphics card but to the G5 CPU, which would mean the R200 graphics card is actually the only graphics card in the system.

    Yes, this is what I meant. Having an older graphics card that supports W3D as the only card on a (powerful) G5 machine, even though they were sold with newer graphics cards. I was thinking Radeon 9000-9250 (R200) and wrote it a wrong there.
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