On 9 Dec 2002, Russell McManus wrote:

> Is it possible to run the XFree86 X server on a powermac 7300 if one
> adds a video card to one of the PCI slots?
> 
>   http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/x11.html
> 
> suggests that this is not possible, but I am looking for confirmation.
> Here is the relevent excerpt:

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	If memory serves, X11R6.3 will run on the older macs. The newer 
XFree86 v4 needs a video card with a VGA ROM on the card to do its 
initialization with. Having a VGA ROM on a Mac is awefully silly, but 
until someone comes up with something better, you will probably need a 
Rage 128 or better add in card. (Keeping in mind that the closed 
source nvidia driver doesn't really work on Net/Open BSD(yet).)