Re: Maximum memory and graphics options (plain text)

Peter Kay <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>


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>That's appears to be the case. I have more than 4GB >(I think 8.5GB) in my
>PowerMac11,2 and it only recognizes 2GB. There >are some issues with the
>SATA controller as well that I have mentioned in >threads a few months
>back on this list. I purchased some more SATA >controller hardware to see
>what I can figure out but have not had time to work >on it further.

Damn, not what I wanted to hear but suspected it might be the case. For everyone reading this, what does it say at the top of dmesg (real/actual memory)?

>I bought a Radeon X1900 Mac Edition which is the >fastest card that could
>be supported on a PCIe PowerMac G5 and there are >still problems. See
>this thread for where things need to go:

Thanks for the links, at least I won't waste my money on buying one. May try and get the 6600 working as it does on x86. I bought the G5 so I had a sort of modern big endian BSD box.

PK
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