Text 7948, 171 rader
Skriven 2006-11-13 02:39:06 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 7944 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: ttylinux
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Hey WAYNE!

Nov 12 20:27 06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC> VIA Samual II 800 MHz whatever that is however this is *not* the unit 
 WC> I 
 WC> was looking at but their $140 low end PC.

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : VIA Samuel 2
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 801.489
cache size      : 64 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips        : 1605.17

It works good.

 WC> The one I was looking at has an Intel Celeron:
 WC> I can't say anything about the vendor, this is not to be taken
 WC> as a advertisement or recommendation just for discussion sake.

I can't say anything about them as I haven't run across one yet.  I didn't care
much for the P4 Celerons as we (neighbour and I) both could run circles around
that with regular P3's.

 WC> MadTux 2.53 GHz 64-bit Affordable Performance PC   $199.00 $179.00

Must be one of the early ones (S478).  Probably okay, especially given the
price.

 WC> This is a 64-bit system that will run x86_64 or x86 versions of 
 WC> Linux.

It should.  Here is what I am curently working with;

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 6
model name      :               Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 3000.007
cache size      : 2048 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 6
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss
ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips        : 6006.16
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

The second core (dual core 4M cache) reports the same.  Got a good deal on it.

 WC> The MadTux Performance PC has a 2.53 GHz Intel EM64T Celeron D 
 WC> Processor 
 WC> with a 533MHz FSB, 256MB DDR 400 RAM, 13.6GB 7200RPM Hard Disk and an 
 WC> embedded Intel Extreme Graphics engine, 64M shared memory, one AGPro 
 WC> slot, 
 WC> 3 PCI slots, 1 CNR slot, 2 available SATA slots (internal), and 
 WC> 2 UltraDMA IDE slots.

Sounds good.  Like I said, the Matrox G450 AGP card should work great on there.
 As for the Intel Extreme Graphics engine I cannot say I am as impressed with
that as I am with the current Matrox PCI card I put on here but it is definetly
better with console graphics then the NVidia one on the AM2 board.  As to the
PCI card on the Intel lspci shows;

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 (rev 85)
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G450 32Mb Dual Head PCI
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 177
        Memory at 48000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Memory at 4b000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Memory at 4a800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
        Expansion ROM at 4b020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0

Works great.  Nothing beats a Matrox.

 WC> An onboard Realtek ALC655 6-channel audio CODEC supports 
 WC> uncompromising DVD 
 WC> audio quality, bringing a more vivid sound experience and 
 WC> high-quality audio 
 WC> without having to buy advanced sound cards.

My neighbour claims he got the above working but I haven't heard it yet and am
happy with the PCI card which has worked great for years now;

04:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! 5.1 Digital Model SB0220
        Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 58
        I/O ports at 1140 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1



 WC> A 300W power supply, 4 USB 2.0 ports and plenty of room in the case 
 WC> for 
 WC> expandability makes this a must-have at an amazingly affordable 
 WC> price!

For sure.  I think it is worth the gamble.

 WC> These are brand new PCs with the CPU certificate of authenticity from 
 WC> Intel 
 WC> included with the package.

Sounds good.

 WC> From what I gather that's all it is at around 30 plus Meg.

ttylinux can do the same in 4M (a little over 6M for 64-bit).

 WC> I may download it just to look at the docs until such time
 WC> I've a machine to slap it into.

I'll have a looksee myself.  Thanks for the heads up.

 WC> Well I didn't have a stable Linux back then so I guess I could try 
 WC> some of
 WC> those
 WC> 3Com cards agin in a second PCI slot or the ISA 3Com in the 1 ISA 
 WC> slot I have
 WC> and look at them again.

I have around 30 of the ISA ones (509) if you're in need.  Way better then
ne2000's.

 WC> I'm not messing with it until backed up in depth shortly.

For sure!  Always have a backup but I would suggest doing a different install
of a new distro before making a permanent change.  One step at a time.

 WC> All I know about it is it's AGP and works rather well in 1024x768.
 WC> I've saved svgafb.txt from my distribution to my text directory for 
 WC> review.

svga is slow.  I didn't know that was still being supported.

 WC>  Well this has run too long so I'm off to study this for a few more 
 WC> days.

Sounds great.

Life is good,
Maurice

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