Re: Cyrix MediaGX system + Debian ???
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 mike@bcinternet.com wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
>
> > Hi, All
> >
> > there are new wave of cheap
> > i86 systems based on Cyrix
> > MediaGX chip with integrated
> > video and sound (and Ethernet in the future).
> >
> > The price makes it quite attractive as
> > X terminal and such.
> I had this same thought, so at work we picked up 2 of 'em. The
> VGA server worked fine, but other than that we didn't have much luck.
> Our main interest was the built-in TV/RF out on the back, but
> unfortuanatly it's crap with X. So I gave up and turned them into
> ip_masq/diald boxes for some of our customers. For this they work
> grrrreat!
>
>
> > Is such system Debian Compatible?
> 100% haven't had a problem yet.
>
> > What about video? It's UMA
> > system - it takes 2M out
> > of system memory but still
> > 14M left and it's quite
> > enough for kernel and
> > X server.
> If you get 'em to run X decently, please tell me :> I just didn't
> have time or desire to put the effort in.
>
> good luck,
> mike
Mike,
GGI team releases support for MediaGX chip -
you have to compile custom kernel
and install X-GGI server.
OK
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