On Tuesday 02 January 2001 23:18, Alinga Yeung wrote:
I am glad to here it went well, after some more reading on this motherboard
yesterday I may disable the on-board video and go with add on graphics card.
Since I already have the tnt2, I was thinking about picking up a geforce and
it is double bonus to see that went well for you also.
> I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 on my new system. It
> went quite smoothly apart from the BIOS setup that I needed
> to do but didn't do -- I needed to turn off "PNP OS" in the BIOS.
> My system uses a GeForce II MX card and Mandrake 7.2
> configured it correctly -- in the sense that I could startx and use
> KDE without problems. I am quite happy with Mandrake 7.2
> based on my installation experience. My other system uses
> Mandrake 7.1 and I plan to upgrade it to Mandrake 7.2 once
> I have some time and if I don't come across many problems
> with Mandrake 7.2. The following is my system with Mandrake 7.2
> running:
>
> PIII 866
> 256 MB SDRAM
> Asus CUSL2-C MB
> GeFroce II MX
> SB Live
> DEC "tulip" Ethernet card
> DVD ROM
> CD Writer
>
>
> Good luck.
>
> Alinga
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Sternesky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:12 AM
> Subject: [expert] Intel 815e
>
> > I sent this a couple of days ago and it seems it never made it to the
>
> list.
>
> > I will be getting an intel 815e motherboard with onboard sound and 4Xagp
> > graphics. I was wondering 2 things has anyone installed Mandrake 7.2 on
> > one of these, if so what "challenges" if any can I look forward to if any
>
> to
>
> > get the hardware recognized. I plan on doing a fresh install. According
>
> to
>
> > the intel FAQ I can anticipate it not seeing all of my memory for 2.x
>
> series
>
> > of kernels, it also looks like I will have to install a graphic driver
>
> from
>
> > intel for the agp support.
> >
> > Also, since I currently use a Creatave TNT2 Ultra in 24bit will I be
> > disappointed by video performance, including openGL? The xfree86.org
> > site indicates 4.02 has improved DRI but only at 16. It does have a slot
> > for adding an agp video card if I choose, but I am wondering if this is
> > worth
>
> the
>
> > added expense to play some games.
> >
> > If anybody has some experience with these I would appreciate their
>
> feedback,
>
> > since I won't tackle this until the weekend I am trying to plan ahead.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jerry
