Planning on a new system

Planning on a new system

[Louis Garcia]

I'm planning on getting a Gateway with this configuration. I'm just wondering
if this hardware is supported by kernel-2.4.18? I'm not sure of the chipset,
audio, or nic. How bug free is the bios? Any advice would be helpful. By the
way what's up with majordomo?
Thanks, --Lou

Gateway 500S:

CPU: 2.2GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with 512K L2 cache

RAM: 256MB 266MHz DDR SDRAM

BIOS: AMI®

Chipset: Intel® i82845 593 uBGA MCH and ICH2

Front Side Bus 400MHz Data FSB

AGP Bus AGP Expansion Port-AGP 2.0 1.5V Only signaling
· 2x, or 4x AGP data transfer supported
· 2x/4x fast write protocol

Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics

Hard disk drive 40GB Ultra ATA100 7200RPM Hard Drive

Controller 2 on-board controllers supporting 4 IDE devices, ICH2 dual channel Ultra ATA/DMA 33/66/100

Floppy disk drive 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive

CD-ROM drive 24x/10x/40x Recordable/Rewritable CDRW

Audio Integrated-ICH AC97 v2.1

Network Integrated 10/100 LAN, Intel 82562ET LAN connect device

Expansion slots 3 PCI and 1 AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port)

Power Supply 160W-110/220 switchable power

Re: Planning on a new system

[Diego Calleja]

On 19 May 2002 21:07:58 -0400
Louis Garcia <louisg00@bellsouth.net> escribió:

> I'm planning on getting a Gateway with this configuration. I'm just wondering
> if this hardware is supported by kernel-2.4.18? I'm not sure of the chipset,

The best method is testing it.... ;)

Re: Planning on a new system

[Jan Hudec]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:07:58PM -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
> Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics

AFAIK there some binary-only driver for this card, that causes trouble
time to time and as it's binary only, no one can debug them.
I am not sure what really requres the driver, that is how much X can do
without it.

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                  				- Jan Hudec `Bulb' <bulb@ucw.cz>

Re: Planning on a new system

[Andrew Rodland]

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On Mon, 20 May 2002 21:21:36 +0200
Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:

> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:07:58PM -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
> 
> AFAIK there some binary-only driver for this card, that causes trouble
> time to time and as it's binary only, no one can debug them.
> I am not sure what really requres the driver, that is how much X can
> do without it.

You get 2d, semi-accelerated (that is, XAA only) graphics, at whatever
resolution you want, with X's "nv" driver.

Installing the NVidia kernel stuff + other libraries gets you better
acceleration on X, Render, Xv, and of course hardware-accelerated GLX.

It's actually not a bad card, lots of speed and decent quality... but
the module is occasionally flaky, and, of course, undebuggable. :)

--hobbs

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Re: Planning on a new system

[Anssi Saari]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:42:44PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2002 21:21:36 +0200
> Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:07:58PM -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > > Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
> > 
> > AFAIK there some binary-only driver for this card, that causes trouble
> > time to time and as it's binary only, no one can debug them.
> > I am not sure what really requres the driver, that is how much X can
> > do without it.
> 
> You get 2d, semi-accelerated (that is, XAA only) graphics, at whatever
> resolution you want, with X's "nv" driver.
 
What's full-accelerated 2d then?

> Installing the NVidia kernel stuff + other libraries gets you better
> acceleration on X, Render, Xv, and of course hardware-accelerated GLX.

The "nv" driver in X (since 4.1.0) has Xv also, for apparently all
Geforce 2 and 3 chips. In my experience it's fine for running my desktop
at 1600x1200x32 and also for watching videos using Xv support.

Re: Planning on a new system

[Alan Cox]

> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:07:58PM -0400, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
> 
> AFAIK there some binary-only driver for this card, that causes trouble
> time to time and as it's binary only, no one can debug them.
> I am not sure what really requres the driver, that is how much X can do
> without it.

There is also a very basic utah-glx open source driver for it and XFree 4.2
now. It needs a lot of work doing but its just about usable. 

	http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net

Re: Planning on a new system

[J Sloan]

Louis Garcia wrote:

>CPU: 2.2GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with 512K L2 cache
>
wow, bleeding edge -

>
>RAM: 256MB 266MHz DDR SDRAM
>
(?) only 256 MB?

If it was my system, I'd rather have a P4 1.6
and 512 MB RAM for performance reasons

RAM is so cheap it would be insane to go
stingy on RAM

>Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics
>
Very solid card - actually you can get MX400
with 64 NB RAM for $55 or so -

Basic X11 will work out of the box, but for
any 3D work you will need to download the
nvidia drivers from their website -

Joe