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- From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Subject: Re: Linux VESA local bus compatablitly question?
- Message-ID: <BtMpB2.D3J@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:13:35 GMT
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- philip@think.com (Philip Mucci) writes:
- > 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)
-
- Avoid the S3 chip.. go with an ET-4000 based video card.. (there are local
- bus ET-4000 cards on the market with I/O & IDE also integrated).
-
- X386 supports ET4000 well.. S3 is not supported *AT ALL*
-
-
- >P.p.s. Will I really need 150Megs of disk space to get X running?
-
- Only if you want to compile it yourself and/or install every X client
- you can find...
-
- I have a fair X setup (all of the clients from banjo before it died)
- in about 15M...
- --
- The Upholder of Truth I am not only ready to
- Upholder@uiuc.edu (BSD/ASCII mail) retract this, but also
- jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail) deny I said anything. =)
- wi.4173@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (anon. mail) This is *NOT* CCSO's opinion.
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