Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 08:52:12 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@toy.chip-web.com> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>, 'mrushton' <mrushton@epix.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Cyrix Media GX and FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.1.19990522084732.00aa99c0@mail-r> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB44011058F2@site2s1>
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I would recommend that you _not_ get the Media GX for a desktop system. I currently have a small Oasis-branded Media GX 180MHz box running as a DNS server. Last I checked (a few months ago), XFree86 did have support for the MediaGX's graphics chipset, but it wasn't very functional (you were limited in how the modelines could be set up). Additionally, the MediaGX was made to be cheap, not necessarily good. You could probably get better graphics performance with a cheap S3 card. At 09:45 PM 5/21/1999 , Christopher Michaels wrote: >The processor itself will work. But I don't believe that the sound will be >supported. As far as video you'll want to check http://www.XFree86.org/ and >see if that is supported, as XFree is was is used for the graphical >interface. > >As always, check the release notes for the version you plan on installing >and see what hardware is supported. (http://www.FreeBSD.org/) > >> Will FreeBSD run on a Cyrix Media GX processor, you know the one that has >> the sound card and video right on the board ????? >> >> I wanna upgrade my old 486 (change the guts of it) but it has to be cheap. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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