Re: newbie needs advice with HP Visualize and Debian

[Joel Soete <joel.soete@tiscali.be>]

Matt Taggart wrote:

> axl@tightlook.de writes...
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> > First of all: Is a c3600 still competitive compared to an Athlon64
> > "3x00+" or an (used) Intel Dual Xeon 2200 workstation?
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> No. MHz-wise it's 2-3x slower and I suspect it is also less efficient per 
> cycle. Sorry :( I think there are some benchmark results out there somewhere 
> (I think tausq ran lmbench?).
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> > I've been reading that installing Sarge is no problem, but X wouldn't
> > run. Is this still true?
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afaik yes :-( for the builtin gfx but there was some report of 
successfull X run with some Voodoo and ati

> http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/graphics-howto.html
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parisc-linux.org ml is also a good source of info :-)
<http://parisc-linux.org/mailing-lists/index.html>

Hth,
   Joel