[rescue] mac model performance

Mike Hebel nimitz at owc.net
Tue Jul 9 13:16:40 CDT 2002


Nubus is not well supported for much of anything non 68k - and even then 
there are issues.  Especially on the 6100 which is a nubus PowerMac. 
Kinda a cross of old and new as far as Macs go.

Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:59:51PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Oh, BTW, the 6100 video capture is supported under linux.  So, web
>>>camming is possible.
>>
>>You got a URL on this?  I've got a 6100/60AV that I picked up recently,
>>and when I heard this from someone, but couldn't find anything that
>>corroborated this.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, the URL was lost in the great HD failure of 07/05/02.
> However, let me see if I can find it again.
> 
> OK, here it is: http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/planb.html
> 
> They say only 7x00 and 8x00 PCI machines.  Grr.  I was sure I had
> specifically seen 7100 mentioned (and the 6100 uses the same AV card,
> so it should just work).  
> 
> Well, at the moment I can't find any more info.  I was sure I'd seen
> it supported though, but I don't have the time to keep searching.



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