Greetings
I've got a Lombard G3, the one with the bronze keyboard, USB and SCSI but no firewire. 400MHz, factory DVD hardware assist on ATI 8MB display card.
The DVD player will not play DVDs in X-it mounts them, but when you start DVD player (what comes with the OS) it just says the hardware or configuration is not supported. Seems odd since it's all factory Apple hardware and didn't need XPF to put X on there, but I've heard of this before.
If I do the common trick of sticking a newer ATAPI laptop DVD drive in the extant housing/bezel, will that newer unit then play (and possiby burn) DVDs?
More cheaply, can I get some sorta 3rd party driver or hardware hack to make it work instead?
Thanks!
I've got a Lombard G3, the one with the bronze keyboard, USB and SCSI but no firewire. 400MHz, factory DVD hardware assist on ATI 8MB display card.
The DVD player will not play DVDs in X-it mounts them, but when you start DVD player (what comes with the OS) it just says the hardware or configuration is not supported. Seems odd since it's all factory Apple hardware and didn't need XPF to put X on there, but I've heard of this before.
If I do the common trick of sticking a newer ATAPI laptop DVD drive in the extant housing/bezel, will that newer unit then play (and possiby burn) DVDs?
More cheaply, can I get some sorta 3rd party driver or hardware hack to make it work instead?
Thanks!