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]

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.

: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.

[cymon]

It's going to run Debian. I'd like to pick up some SCSI disks, it has nearly every SCSI 2 interface onboard. I am going to put it in a regular ATX case, the one I'm using now has a busted power switch.

[cymon]

Debian 3.1 Stable is now installed. Running it with XF86 4.3 and XFCE4.
And yes, it rocks. Linux FTW!

[mobrien_12]

XF86????

I didn't think anyone still used that since the developer team went nuts.

[cymon]

Sadly, x.org takes too long to compile. Remember, it's a PII. I had to swap the graphics for a Voodoo 3 since the Rage Pro died on me.

EDIT- I've located xserver-xorg in Debian repo, I'll install later as it's getting late here.

[mobrien_12]

You had to compile X?  Surely Debian has precompiled binaries?

The Voodoo 3 is a really good card.   With MESA and GLIDE you get Accelerated OpenGL in DRI with no security issues,  and the V3 has XV support as well.

EDIT- you must have edited while I was typing.  Anyhow... make sure to get Glide3 for the v3.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Does Voodoo make really good cards ? I've never gotten the chance to use one ... I hate using the non-free nVidia drivers, (especially since a kernel bug in FC5 prevents non-GPL kernel modules from being installed)

[cymon]

The voodoo was a series of chipsets, made by 3Dfx, who are now defunct. They're getting old now, but the Voodoo 3 works great in DRI, with Glade and Mesa, like M' OBrian said.

[Lead Head]

The voodoo was a series of chipsets, made by 3Dfx, who are now defunct. They're getting old now, but the Voodoo 3 works great in DRI, with Glade and Mesa, like M' OBrian said.

yup voodoo got bought up by nVidia around ~2000. I think their last card was the voodoo 5, i think it had something like 4 GPUs on it.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Crap ... are there any good cards that are not nVidia or ATI that have HW accel without the need for non-free drivers ?

[Aloone_Jonez]

Does Voodoo make really good cards ? I've never gotten the chance to use one ... I hate using the non-free nVidia drivers, (especially since a kernel bug in FC5 prevents non-GPL kernel modules from being installed)

Some people might actually think this bug is a good thing, I wonder what piratePenguin thinks.