On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
