So yeah I know my graphics card isn’t really supported in OS 9 with acceleration (Nvidia FX Go 5200 32mb VRAM)
Sleep mode is number my number 1 priority in this case, it’s so annoying to have to shut down my PowerBook G4 everytime I just want to take it somewhere plus lets say I’m the dark; the brightness control however not working really isn’t that bad because the default brightness settings aren’t to high, but still it’ll be nice if the brightness can be patched
If acceleration patching is possible I will be happy to accept a modified driver/extension for my Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 32mb
Here are the specs exactly
Fixing these issues requires a Native Device Driver 'NDRV' for Mac OS 9 for the Go5200.
Radeon/ATI cards have 'NDRV's under OS X, sadly nVidia cards passed the GF4 have no 'NDRV's under OS X, so we can't use them to create OS 9 drivers.
I tried everything I can think of to make it work, it's going to require writing our own 'NDRV' for OS 9, and as Apple's documentation on 'NDRV's is next to useless, and nVidia won't release the data sheets for these old cards, or any cards for that matter, it's going to require a reverse engineer of the nouveau Linux drivers and someone with knowledge of OS 9 style "NDRV's.
Basically your best hope is to forget about it, because it's never likely to happen. Even if we had an 'NDRV' that wouldn't fix the sleep issues, tho it would allow the card to enter sleep mode, the system crashes on sleep exit with no way to debug.
An 'NDRV' won't fix 2D/3D acceleration, that would require more drivers still, porting MESA to OS 9, requiring a much newer GCC than anything that exists for OS 9, not to mention all the other dependencies for MESA.
It could be done, by someone with correct knowledge, but could be and will be are not the same thing, best hope would be to learn to code for OS 9 and do it yourself, there was a very old port of MESA to the classic Mac OS before Apple embraced OpenGL that allowed for Software render of OpenGL, so that is a starting place.
Here is my advice, if you want it bad enough, don't count on anyone else to do it for you, learn to code and do it yourself, or forget about it. Coders with the kinds of skills to take on these tasks a busy making programs for modern computers that still have a market. They like to get paid. Even at Apple or nVidia, I'd say there are very few people left that even understand OS 9 or the GeForce GPU's used it G4's.
Outside of them, you are talking to the person with the most knowledge of both, and I'm not going to put forth the effort because there is no real market to make it worth the time invested.