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New Linux Box
cymon:
Well, I've finally received the parts from eBay, and my Linux project is underway.
Specs:
Asus P2B-S Slot 1 Motherboard
Pentium II 350MHz
192 MB's of PC100 SDRAM
ATi Rage Pro graphics, and yes, it does have drivers.
Finally, a 4GB Fujitsu hard drive and a 52X cdrom.
Fear the leetness.
Aloone_Jonez:
Which distro are you planning on installing or are you planning on trying a few?
piratePenguin:
What happened to the AMD64s? :p
What kinda case are you gonna use? Or are you not thinking about that yet?
Lead Head:
--- Quote from: cymon ---Well, I've finally received the parts from eBay, and my Linux project is underway.
Specs:
Asus P2B-S Slot 1 Motherboard
Pentium II 350MHz
192 MB's of PC100 SDRAM
ATi Rage Pro graphics, and yes, it does have drivers.
Finally, a 4GB Fujitsu hard drive and a 52X cdrom.
Fear the leetness.
--- End quote ---
:eek:
I did a basic FC4 installation and took around 1.7GB
mobrien_12:
The rage pro is a good Linux card.
Out of the box it has very good 2D performance, plus excellent XV support.
There is open source 3D acceleration available for it, but it's not included in any linux distro. The reason is that it's not secure... apparently every user can read the video data or something like that. Not really a problem for a single user box, but no linux distro would include it.
To enable it you need to compile a kernel module (easy) recompile X.org, and recompile mesa.
I built the kernel module, but didn't want to recompile X and mesa because I didn't want to mess up the RPM structure of Fedora.
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