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Skriven 2010-11-22 18:10:55 av Victor Bien
Ärende: Re: AMD Phenom based hardware - some questions
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From: Victor Bien <me@privacy.net>

Peter Brown wrote:
> Hi Victor
> 
> Victor Bien wrote:
>>
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>> A few months back I successfully migrated my ver 4.52 to run on a
>> Gigabyte GS-MA74GM-S2 mb which works with an AMD Athlon X2 socket AM3
>> CPU. I would not have a clue whether I am working all the cores. I have
>> no idea about the driver(s) for multi-core operation others have
>> mentioned in this thread. The performance presently is noticeably better
>> than the previous ASUS K8VSE mb, Sempron 3000+.
>>
>> I could still use my Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card and InitIO scsi adapter
>> (to operate my HP Scanjet 5P scanner). I now run SATA HDs, got a driver
>> to operate the on-board NIC and have the USB system working and so use
>> USB keyboard and mouse and can connect USB sticks and HDs with USB
>> adapters - all quite gratifying but... Since MBs with AGP sockets are no
>> longer available I had to phase out my AGP video card and use the
>> on-board video. With Snap having closed I thought I had to settle with
>> using the GRAD video with its slow screen redraw.
>>
>> So I was most interested in the mention above of an ATI PCI-e card with
>> the implied statement my Snap driver can drive it! Is that right?
>>
> 
> 
> Check the SNAP readme for details of supported ATI cards; I know from 
> experience that x300, x550, x600, x700 and x800 work fine, later ATI 
> cards may only be supported in VESA mode or by the Panorama driver.
> 
> I suspect you will find mainly 2nd user ATI x series cards on ebay but 
> sometimes new cards (old stock?) do get listed.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pete

Thanks for the lead!  I forgot about the Snap docs on my disk!  I did get onto
eBay and managed to buy a X300 for less than AUD$20.  Video back to accelerated
- great!  So my OS/2 computer has a full new lease of life for at least another
five years.  What might eCS achieve over the coming years in Russia!?  So many
top computer graduates over there?

Victor Bien

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System: Gigabyte GS-MA74GM-S2 mb, AMD Athlon II X2 socket AM3 CPU, 2 GB DDR2
RAM, ATI Radeon X300 video, Soundblaster Live soundcard, on-board NIC, SATA
primary disk, IDE secondary disks, LG CD burner, InitIO scsi hba, HP 5p
scanner, cable internet access via LAN, Lexmark E310 laser printer.  MCP2, FP5,
14.103a_W4 kernel, C: FAT16 540MB, D: HPFS 2.8GB, E: JFS 470 GB, F: JFS 100 GB,
G: JFS 7.2 GB, H: JFS 7.2 GB, USB stick or hard disk connect facility, always
run OD 1.53 Tab Launch pad with XWorkplace XPager, PM Fax 3.00.05e, some PIMs,
Screen Util, Apache 2, ftpd, PMMail 2.20.2382, Firefox ver 3.6.8, DeScribe
5.0.6 and a couple of Win-OS2 programs.  Runs 24h/d. 


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