Linux on a mac with a Rage LtPro
 

I bought a G3 Powerbook (333Mhz - 320Mb - no firewire). I've managed to get OsX Tiger installed and everything runs well accept the graphics card (An ATI Rage LT PRO 8mb {LT-C chipset?}) was supported in Os9 but not OsX. so I find myself in a familiar situation of a computer that works fine but with absolutely no 3d or even 2d acceleration. Now I'm usually an NVIDIA guy so I don't know anything about ATI cards but I'm thinking I could dual boot some ppc linux distro (As striped down as possible) and at least get Xvideo and sdl support (I just want to play sega, snes and maybe some video.) I know some people use ATI cards with linux but is there anyway to get this card working on a G3?

u can try a mac distro derivative of Debian-fink
http://fink.sourceforge.net/

I have fink. I can install sdl apps like snes9x in Tiger but it runs at 5fps due to apple not making an accelerated driver for my powerbook anymore (Something that would make me quite upset if I was the original owner and had paid $2500 for it.) I'm saying a very minimal install of a ppc distro (something like gentoo, debian or slack) with like 2 or 3 emulators and mplayer I dont even think I'd need a WM if I could launch everything from the cli.