Dear Roberto. > ... but have been offered a nice DS20 in a small cabinet (E model) > lately that i could use as a second machine at home.
I don't know the DS20, I own a DEC Personal Workstation 500 AU running at 500 MHz (and an Alphastation 500, 266 MHz (?)). Google told me about a DS20 at 500 MHz. > Unfortunately, i am very unaware of the state of "desktop computing" on > the alpha. > Should I dust off my SRM handbook and go for it ? On the PW 500 AU, I am running Debian 3.1 (=Sarge, stable). It works fine, I use this machine as a DVD burner. One big problem (graphics, see below). Performance is ok for me, I like that machine. > BTW, i could use some advice on decent video adaptors that work on the > Alpha, > I remember hunting down a PCI Radeon back in 2002 (long gone) , > and getting DRI going after a lengthy fight with gcc optimisations > that produced broken code .... I use the original Powerstorm card - true color mode (yes, it works!). I have a problem with KDE applications - the colors are totally wrong, you can't read anything. Gnome works fine. Cannot remeber to have seen this problem with Debian Woody (=3.0), as fare as I remember I used the KDE desktop with Woody. Library problem? Don't know enough about graphics to solve the problem myself. Running KDE applications over the network - no problem. I did not check any other true color PCI graphics - but I don't think it's a Powerstorm specific problem. So try and get that DC20 ;-) Regards, Hartwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
