Re: Cyrix MediaGX system + Debian ???
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
Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today?
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