At 06:01 PM 4/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> 266 Mhz Pentium CPU
>
>you mean pentium ][.
Yep . . . typo!
>it'll work. my only concern is that i'm not certain that the linux
>triton driver recognizes and supports DMA busmastering with the 440LX
>chipset's integrated EIDE controller. 2.0.32 and 2.0.33 don't appear
>to. it's a relatively easy patch to make it work, probably, and there
>may be one out there. this is purely a performance issue, though, and
>linux will work with this board.
A good point. I don't expect that performance will be a big deal
overall as this is a high-end system, but it's things like this that I
wanted to get some opinions on. There is no point getting a fast system
and then crippling it because of something like this. Will certainly look
into the bus mastering . . . this is always a pain, even with 95/NT on
certain boards.
>> 64MB SD RAM (2 x 32MB DIMM)
>
>why not 1 DIMM?
$40 more for a single 64 as opposed to 2 32's. I guess that given the
overall system it wouldn't make a big difference, but I figured I might as
well have the $40 as the vendor.
>> ATI 3D Xpression 4MB video card
>
>definitely go matrox. the millenium ][ AGP is supported in XFree 3.3.2
>and works extremely well. the cheaper PCI mystique cards also work
>well and have the added advantage of working out of the box with RH
>5.0 which ships with XFree 3.3.1.
Will call the vendor tomorrow and go with Matrox . . . I like ATI on NT
and 95 systems, but I don't want to end up with something that won't work.
Matrox has a good reputation and if ATI is going to be the sticky point (as
several people have indicated), it has to go.
>> DLINK DE-530 CT+ NIC (NT recognizes this as a DEC PCI Ethernet DECchip
21041)
>
>yep. tulip cards rock under linux.
>
Figured it would be OK . . . we use a lot of DLINK cards at work and
have had good luck with them.
>> 6.4GB Fujitsu Ultra DMA HDD
>
>i prefer seagate, but either will work fine. many people here run
>linux on fujitsu UDMA drives since we get them cheap and do so with
>little incident. however, i've seen more fujitsus die prematurely than
>seagates.
Got the Fujitsu purely because it was cheaper. Have had good luck with
them at work, but like anything else, you get what you pay for. Think I'll
stick with this one.
>> Logitech mouse
>
>accept nothing less.
That was my feeling!
>> No sound card or other adapters. No dual boot. This is to be a
>> dedicated Linux system. I'm mostly concerned with the video card and the
>> NIC. I note that RH lists DEC 2104* network cards on their compatibility
>> list, so that will *probably* work. The ATI video card may be a bit too
>> new. Any thoughts on all this will be appreciated.
>
>the video card is always the big sticking point. matrox has become a
>pretty safe bet and has the advantage of much better performance
>across the board than the recent ATI cards i've seen.
>
>tim
Thanks for the feedback, Tim (and to all others who responded.) I do
95/NT support for a living, but am new to Linux. I want to learn Unix so I
don't live and breathe Microsoft the rest of my life. And, I don't want to
have to fight with hardware compatibility issues for the next month. I've
spent too many years doing just this on DOS/WIN-311/95/NT systems and I'd
like to concentrate on the software. I suspect that with the few minor
changes you've all suggested, this system will be "plug and play" with
Linux.
Regards, Paul
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