OS4 Classic BPPC/060 A1200 Radeon

[nyteschayde]

So, I have an A1200 upgraded with a Blizzard PPC, a Mediator 1200 SX, Voodoo3, Fast Ethernet Card, roughly 160MB RAM and a Catweasal PCI card. I just bought a Radeon 9200 Pro card and I was wondering if it's possible at all to use it.

Elbox, being slower than molasses in their responses, have not surprisingly not gotten back to me yet.  Their site seems to indicate that I should be able to use it. I have both the Mediator CD and the 3.12 update mentioned on their site but I don't see anything regarding Radeon drivers.

Will it simply not work? Tell me there is a way!

[nyteschayde]

I am not able to use the card but I did manage to prevent the unlimited reboot for OS4 classic while the card is in the mediator. That simply required me to go into the /KickStart directory and modify the config. I commented out the line that tries to load Radeon support.

Frankly I am amazed that I found it as easily and as quickly as I did because to be honest I had no idea that the /KickStart directory was even there or what it's purpose was. But using some floppies I created a quick boot RAD device with 3.1 installed and it was enough for me to tinker with my OS4 boot drive. My accelerator gives me plenty of RAM to have a full 3.1 installation in memory.

Good to know about the Radeon stuff. Now that the OS4 team can do whatever they want I really do hope they provide a 4.1 for OS4 Classic. I can understand why they might not do so but I can still hope that they will, right?

I would really like to see PPC mac support for OS4 but failing that I'd really like to see OS4.1 Classic.