On 2009/06/16 15:42 (GMT+0200) Roger Oberholtzer composed:
I have had a request by a client to see if some legacy hardware is supported by openSUSE 10.3. Most of the things they asked about I could sort out. It just left me with this:
ASUS P2B-S Motherboard (CPU - Pentium 2 350/512/100/2.0 S1)
ATI Mach 64 PCI
The system should run KDE 3.5. No fancy graphics effects. I suspect it could be pushing it with a 350 MHz P2. Even id the graphics card is decent. Aside from suggesting a hardware upgrade, any constructive opinions?
That's almost the same motherboard (P2B, not -S) & CPU of a system I set up for my niece to use when she was living with me several years ago. It was a very popular motherboard/CPU combination, with the best chipset of its era, the i440BX. I upgraded the CPU to from PII-350 to PIII-600MHz (same as http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&&item=200256089865 ) along the way, and the RAM from 256M to 384M. The video card was ATI, but AGP Rage Pro 8M. The last Linux installed was Kubuntu 8.04, which was released 6 months after 10.3. It seemed perfectly adequate to me running KDE3 with no bling. IIRC that motherboard supports PIII up to 800 MHZ at 100FSB with the stock BIOS, faster with a special BIOS. Graphics performance from a PCI gfxcard with a 350MHz CPU might not be acceptable. If that turns out to be the case, I'd try to pick up a faster CPU and/or an AGP 1 (or 2 I think, but not 4 up) card to use with it. Those common legacy parts should be available dirt cheap or free many places, eBay or local computer shops that haven't thrown away all the old stuff. PIII CPUs require a different cooler configuration than PII. -- "Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle." Proverbs 23:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org