7800GTX / FX4500 Working in Ubuntu Mate!

[topbanana_]

Finally!!
Standard updates over the last few days have updated the kernel etc so decided to plug my 7800GTX (BIOS Rom hacked as a FX4500) back in and boot to see what happens and success !

 

[KawaiiAurora]

Finally!!
Standard updates over the last few days have updated the kernel etc so decided to plug my 7800GTX (BIOS Rom hacked as a FX4500) back in and boot to see what happens and success !

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Awesome! How's the performance?

 

[topbanana_]

Awesome! How's the performance?

Not sure as don't run games but compiz works better/smoother.

 

[Ih8reno]

Mine is set to log in automatically. This is after downloading all updates. No dice. My card is the pc 4500 flashed to Mac.

 

[KawaiiAurora]

Mine is set to log in automatically. This is after downloading all updates. No dice. My card is the pc 4500 flashed to Mac.

Did you try resetting PRAM or plugging in another GPU?

 

[Ih8reno]

Did you try resetting PRAM or plugging in another GPU?

Yeah using my 6600 now it's all good. Pressed the motherboard reset button also

 

[KawaiiAurora]

Yeah using my 6600 now it's all good. Pressed the motherboard reset button also

Awesome! Your Mac is either a bit mad (like mine) or it doesn't like your 7800GTX

 

[Ih8reno]

Funny how it's perfectly fine in OSX

 

[KawaiiAurora]

Funny how it's perfectly fine in OSX

Macs are mysterious.. My Mac hates OS X 10.5 and 10.4.6+ has serious issues while other versions and Linux work just fine. Simply PowerMacs..

 

[topbanana_]

Mine is set to log in automatically. This is after downloading all updates. No dice. My card is the pc 4500 flashed to Mac.

Hmm - It must be something else that I did then - thing is I have poked about quite a bit on GPU stuff, initially to get the 6600 to support 2d/3d acceleration - You know about the MSI interrupts setting in yaboot.conf :-

"
Nouveau driver has issues with MSI interrupts, use yaboot parameter

• nouveau.config=NvMSI=0

You can also add it to your /etc/yaboot.conf and update using sudo ybin -v (see the FAQ for more info)"

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCKnownIssues

Also try using synaptic to update if you're not already - on my PC Ubuntu installation I have had one instance where Ubuntu update has said nothing to update but Synaptic has marked some updates.

Finally I may be wrong but I heard it may even be down to the revision of the 7800 and even which ROM was used to change the firmware to make it usable in a mac. (I didn't flash mine but purchased already flashed so don't have the ROM) Yours is also a real FX4500 and not a 7800GTX, maybe that's somehow the issue also.

Other than that I don't think I can help as I don't really know myself why it's started working.