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Caesar
February 5th, 2005, 06:16 PM
....like x86 users?

As indicated here at point 2;
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3713
jjramsey
February 5th, 2005, 09:04 PM
....like x86 users?

As indicated here at point 2;
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3713

As far as I know, those drivers are for x86 only.
Elsifer
February 5th, 2005, 09:56 PM
As far as I know, those drivers are for x86 only.
Yep, x86 only :(

Java and linux-ppc dont play well together. Not yet anyways.
Caesar
February 6th, 2005, 03:53 AM
Thanks for answering :)
Viro
February 6th, 2005, 07:05 PM
The ATI drivers aren't that great. I've heard that they're not a easy to setup as the nVidia ones and they don't perform as well either. If you don't have a brand new Radeon, anything less than a Radeon 9500 will have 3D acceleration with the open sourced driver.
DJ_Max
February 6th, 2005, 10:43 PM
Yep, x86 only :(

Java and linux-ppc dont play well together. Not yet anyways.
ATI drivers are for your graphics card, and FYI, Java on linux-ppc works fine.