Os X to support older video cards

[iMan]

I have a Powerbook Lombard and my video card is not supported by os x. On apples care site there used to be a article about this, witch cards and models that weren't supported and that they didn't have any intention to support them in the future.
The other day I was looking for this article to se witch they where but I couldn't find it insted I fund this:



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TITLE
Mac OS X: Optimizing for Earlier ATI Graphics Accelerators Article ID:

Created:

Modified: 106154

3/9/01

4/17/02



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TOPIC

Movies and 2D graphics perform better at lower color depths when using Power Macintosh computers with earlier ATI graphics chipsets.

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DISCUSSION


Symptom



QuickTime movies may play with a lower frame rate than expected. Games and other software that utilize hardware graphics acceleration or OpenGL may perform more slowly than expected.



Products affected


Mac OS X 10.0 and later
Power Macintosh G3 (Desktop, Mini Tower, and All-In-One models)
iMac (233, 266, and 333 MHz models)
PowerBook G3 Series
PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze Keyboard)
iBook (original)


These computers include one of these graphics accelerators:


ATI RAGE II+
ATI RAGE IIc
ATI RAGE Pro
ATI RAGE Pro Turbo
ATI RAGE LT Pro
ATI RAGE Mobility


Solution



Lowering the display color bit depth to thousands improves performance of some movies and applications.


1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple Menu.

2. Click Displays .

3. Click the Display tab.

4. Choose Thousands from the Colors pop-up menu.


Use the latest version of Mac OS X for best overall performance and feature set. Further support for the graphic accelerator chipsets listed above is being investigated for a future version of Mac OS X.



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Document Information
Product Area: Mac OS System Software
Category: Mac OS X
Sub Category: General Topics
Keywords: kmosx



What do you guys think, are apple going to support older video cards as they said when they stared to talk about os x and said it would fully support B&W G3 and later PowerBook G3??

That's how I interperate it... tha article before left me no hope but this looks alot better.
Any thoughts?

 

[serpicolugnut]

Apple was "investigating" whether they could implement any Quartz features using these chipsets, but didn't promise anything.

I heard a rumor that Apple had contracted ATI to develop OS X specific drivers for these chipsets, which would bring some optimization to them, but realistically, you aren't going to wrangle too much more from them.

 

[Chibi15]

I've heard that this drivers are included with 10.1.5

Actually on some Carracho-Server i saw... err... i've heard somebody that someone other some on some screen of a person he rarely even knows that on some carracho-server there was 10.1.5 and it claimed that this release has the new specific drivers.

 

[edX]

witch cards - gottsa get me some of those. never hurts to have a little more magic going on

or were you talking about Tarot - in which case i already have about 20 or more decks