Seeking Video Card for G4

5 05 2007

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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  • Date : 5 May 2007
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6 responses to “Seeking Video Card for G4”

5 05 2007
Ken Lewis (02:36:40) :
   (Using Mozilla Mozilla 1.9a5pre on Windows Windows XP)

(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.

5 05 2007
nixternal (02:56:23) :
   (Using Konqueror Konqueror 3.5 on Kubuntu Linux Kubuntu Linux)

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 :)

5 05 2007
dtlin (03:50:54) :
   (Using Epiphany Epiphany 2.18 on Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Linux)

Why is it that you need a video card? A headless install of Ubuntu is doable.

5 05 2007
nixternal (09:44:15) :
   (Using Konqueror Konqueror 3.5 on Kubuntu Linux Kubuntu Linux)

I am going to do a headless install, but I still need graphics in order to do that :)

12 05 2007
Rick (10:45:40) :
   (Using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP)

Your site is perfect!

12 05 2007
nixternal (11:09:33) :
   (Using Konqueror Konqueror 3.5 on Kubuntu Linux Kubuntu Linux)

Thanks Rick, I appreciate the comment!

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