From: William T. Rankin (wrankin@ee.egr.duke.edu)
Date: 01/27/93


From: wrankin@ee.egr.duke.edu (William T. Rankin)
Subject: Re: Does Linux support VESA Local Bus Video?
Date: 28 Jan 1993 01:00:26 GMT


In article <C1JBvs.4Iu@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, murphy@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Michael L. Murphy) writes:
>
> In this month's Computer Shopper (Feb. '93) there's an ad for
> a FastMicro 486 DX/33 Mhz PC.

good choice, it's a nice price :-)

[snip]

> I want to run Linux on this machine. I know 8 Meg of memory
> should be sufficient, and I should have enough disk space. My question:
> Is the video card Linux-compatible?
[SNIP]
> If anyone can tell me for certain whether this machine will
> run Linux/X11, it would help me greatly. It sounds like a great Unix
> machine otherwise. Thanks for any help.

well, in a couple days i should be able to tell you for certain.
that's when my fastmicro is supposed to get here. that is, if the
486sx/25 has the same video controller that you described.(?)

ordered it two weeks ago, sheesh!

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