Subject: Re: XF86 on macppc, issue 8472854 ;)
To: netbsd-macppc <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/31/2005 20:45:15
On Mar 31, 2005, at 7:11 PM, Michael wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> no, i'm not running michael's kernel because i've spent the last 
>> days/weeks figuring out (no, that was more the part of tim kelly -- 
>> thanks, tim!) why -current didn't run on my G4 and G3 since early 
>> october last year... now we know that it's an MCHK issue which gets 
>> (re)solved when highly optimizing the kernel (altivec, mcpu/mtune, 
>> and O3).
> I'll make a new one after the S900 is done compiling KDE 3.4.
> Chris - was it you who had a Voodoo5 in a Mac somewhere? I remember 
> someone here had one, but I have no idea who. Turns out the voodoo3-5 
> have nearly identical blitters ( at least from a driver's point of 
> view ) so I changed my driver to attach to voodoo4 and 5 too, it would 
> be nice to know if this really works.
>

Yes that's me. The problem at the moment is that I need classic MacOS 
to flash the card back to the Mac ROM, it was serving duty as my 
official Unreal Tournament Glide video card in my PC for a while.