Planning on a new system
I'm planning on getting a Gateway with this configuration. I'm just wondering if this hardware is supported by kernel-2.4.18? I'm not sure of the chipset, audio, or nic. How bug free is the bios? Any advice would be helpful. By the way what's up with majordomo?
Thanks, --Lou
Gateway 500S:
CPU: 2.2GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with 512K L2 cache
RAM: 256MB 266MHz DDR SDRAM
BIOS: AMI®
Chipset: Intel® i82845 593 uBGA MCH and ICH2
Front Side Bus 400MHz Data FSB
AGP Bus AGP Expansion Port-AGP 2.0 1.5V Only signaling · 2x, or 4x AGP data transfer supported
· 2x/4x fast write protocol
Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
Hard disk drive 40GB Ultra ATA100 7200RPM Hard Drive
Controller 2 on-board controllers supporting 4 IDE devices, ICH2 dual channel Ultra ATA/DMA 33/66/100
Floppy disk drive 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive
CD-ROM drive 24x/10x/40x Recordable/Rewritable CDRW
Audio Integrated-ICH AC97 v2.1
Network Integrated 10/100 LAN, Intel 82562ET LAN connect device
Expansion slots 3 PCI and 1 AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port)
Power Supply 160W-110/220 switchable power
Quoted 2 lines · On 19 May 2002 21:07:58 -0400 Louis Garcia <[email protected]> escribió:
I'm planning on getting a Gateway with this configuration. I'm just wondering if this hardware is supported by kernel-2.4.18? I'm not sure of the chipset,
The best method is testing it.... ;)
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Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
AFAIK there some binary-only driver for this card, that causes trouble time to time and as it's binary only, no one can debug them. I am not sure what really requres the driver, that is how much X can do without it.
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Quoted 1 line · Louis Garcia
Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
AFAIK there some binary-only driver for this card, that causes trouble time to time and as it's binary only, no one can debug them. I am not sure what really requres the driver, that is how much X can do without it.
You get 2d, semi-accelerated (that is, XAA only) graphics, at whatever resolution you want, with X's "nv" driver.
Installing the NVidia kernel stuff + other libraries gets you better acceleration on X, Render, Xv, and of course hardware-accelerated GLX.
It's actually not a bad card, lots of speed and decent quality... but the module is occasionally flaky, and, of course, undebuggable. :)
--hobbs
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Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
AFAIK there some binary-only driver for this card, that causes trouble time to time and as it's binary only, no one can debug them. I am not sure what really requres the driver, that is how much X can do without it.
There is also a very basic utah-glx open source driver for it and XFree 4.2 now. It needs a lot of work doing but its just about usable.
Quoted 2 lines · Louis Garcia
CPU: 2.2GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with 512K L2 cache
wow, bleeding edge -
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RAM: 256MB 266MHz DDR SDRAM
(?) only 256 MB?
If it was my system, I'd rather have a P4 1.6 and 512 MB RAM for performance reasons
RAM is so cheap it would be insane to go stingy on RAM
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Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
Very solid card - actually you can get MX400 with 64 NB RAM for $55 or so -
Basic X11 will work out of the box, but for any 3D work you will need to download the nvidia drivers from their website -
Joe
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Quoted 3 lines · On Mon, 20 May 2002 21:21:36 +0200 Jan Hudec <[email protected]> wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Louis Garcia
Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
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AFAIK there some binary-only driver for this card, that causes trouble time to time and as it's binary only, no one can debug them. I am not sure what really requres the driver, that is how much X can do without it.
You get 2d, semi-accelerated (that is, XAA only) graphics, at whatever resolution you want, with X's "nv" driver.
What's full-accelerated 2d then?
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Installing the NVidia kernel stuff + other libraries gets you better acceleration on X, Render, Xv, and of course hardware-accelerated GLX.
The "nv" driver in X (since 4.1.0) has Xv also, for apparently all Geforce 2 and 3 chips. In my experience it's fine for running my desktop at 1600x1200x32 and also for watching videos using Xv support.