3D hardware acceleration on Powermac G5 w/Nvidia yet?

jerryn · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 27

How's the Utah-glx or the dri support for nvidia progressing? I'd love to get my G5 running gentoo, I would really like 3D support
and I'm not going to trade for a mac pro since my dual G5 is pretty fast! And blender runs great on it!
For several years I've been stuck with having my old AMD pc shuttle connected via a kvm, when I write linux code or want to use linux
I either need to run my old box or an x86 version of Linux under qemu.
Beryl is great on the old AMD box! I'd like to get that running on my G5

fb · l33t Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 636 Location: New Zealand

What do you want exactly. I have glx on my iMac G4 with a nvidia card - however
it is _not_ accelerated so far. No dri yet, or at least I haven't been brave enough to
give it a go. The nv x11-drm module with mesa gives you glx - nouveau should give
you dri as well but you may need an experimental mesa with that and be willing to
be an alpha tester.

jerryn · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 27

Cool. I'll build up a firewire drive enclosure for my G5 and put together a gentoo dev invironment on it, or... maybe squeeze another SATA drive in the case. I know there's a mod out there. I'll look. But I'll put together a dev environment for it. Sure I'm willing to test it and document the tests.