What about Nvidia graphics cards? Which have 2D/3D acceleration for Mac OS 9? For Power Macs, maybe only older Nvidia GPUs support OS 9 and the newer ones are only good for OS X though some can be used in OS 9 for 2D stuff? I wish there was a database to rank the cards in each OS.
Newer Nvidia...
There exits Sonnet specific nvramrc patches for Sonnet card PCI-PCI Bridge problems that you can download.
A nvramrc patch for general PCI-PCI bridges in Gazelle (6500, TAM) based Power Macs is discussed at #232
I don't know if Alchemy (6400) has the same problem. If it does then a...
Ok, thanks. At least it found the PCI card and the BARs. I guess now I need to look more closely at what it wants to do with the BARs. I may need to get a SiI 3112 or 3114 card or make the code think a different PCI card that I have is a Sil card.
Looks like there was a problem in the DirectHW library. pciutils works because it contains its own version of the DirectHW library. I updated the 3 projects so now flashrom should be able to find the PCI card in Mac OS X 10.4.
First verify that flashrom can find the card:
sudo flashrom -VVV -p...
I made forks of pciutils, flashrom, and directhw that you can compile on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and later.
https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/silicon-image-sil3112-flashing-easier-way-using-flashrom.7013/post-475781
pciutils works (with directhw) so you can do sudo lspci -vvvnnxxx >...