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- From: philip@think.com (Philip Mucci)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Linux VESA local bus compatablitly question?
- Date: 26 Aug 1992 17:40:03 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Hi all,
-
- I want to buy a 486 with the VESA standard local bus architecture.
- This means that the 80x86 chip is on the motherboard, not on the local bus
- cards. My question is, if I go this route with an S3 local bus video card
- and an IDE - 32-bit local bus disk controller, will I be able to run Linux?
- (That reads: without a year of hacking)
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- Thanks,
-
- -Phil
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- P.s. I read the FAQ and it didn't mention anything about the VESA local bus
- architecture or the S3 video accelerator chip.
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- P.p.s. Will I really need 150Megs of disk space to get X running?
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