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From: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD On Gateway G6-200 ??
Date: 26 Aug 96 21:10:55 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
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mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) writes:
>Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>Richard Ingram (rji@morticia.inmos.co.uk) wrote:
>>: I'm looking into getting a Gateway G6-200 PentiumPro box with 32MB RAM,
>>: 3GB HD and Matrox Millenium graphics card to run FreeBSD and NT-4 on. Are
>>The only GOTCHA is that you can't use X without X-Insides (proprietry)
>>X server - there's another company that produce an X server for Matrox,
>another thing is the Intel made feature into the chipset on your
>motherboard killing the PCI performance... try to run ANY serious
>graphics on the screen simultaneously and you'll see... i would
>assume any serious SCSI gets jammed too...
>and the PCI feature comes with both 440 and 450 series chipsets as
>far as i know... anyone with better information feel free to
>correct... yes, i wish someone would correct me and tell me the
>pro chipsets finally _do_ work...
The PPRO in my Micron works just peachy doing graphics work.
-Crh
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