May 5th, 2007 | Published in Personal | 6 Comments
Anyone in the USA with a spare video card that will work in an Apple G4, please email me if you would like to sell or give it away. I am willing to pay of course, however I don’t want to pay a lot, as I only really need it to load Ubuntu onto it and run it as a server. Thanks in advance.
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May 5th, 2007 at 02:36:40 (#)
(Saw this via Planet Ubuntu.)
I’d suggest buying a Radeon 9200 (not an SE or 9250 edition) from eBay and flashing it with a Mac video BIOS. I’ve not done it myself, but suspect that will be your most cost-effective way to buy a compatible card — the Mac edition cards are still selling at $90 on eBay (perhaps there’s a business to be had in reselling PC Radeons flashed to Mac!).
Hope that helps.
Ken.
May 5th, 2007 at 02:56:23 (#)
I don’t need a Radeon really. One of the inexpensive rage cards would be great. I hate Ebay with a passion as people lower the prices on the hardware but jack up the shipping charges. If worse comes to worse I will probably just buy one of the cards from ebay. Do I need Windows to use that flashing utility? I hope not, as I don’t have access to Windows like that, it isn’t allowed in my house
May 5th, 2007 at 03:50:54 (#)
Why is it that you need a video card? A headless install of Ubuntu is doable.
May 5th, 2007 at 09:44:15 (#)
I am going to do a headless install, but I still need graphics in order to do that
May 12th, 2007 at 10:45:40 (#)
Your site is perfect!
May 12th, 2007 at 11:09:33 (#)
Thanks Rick, I appreciate the comment!