Gerald Waugh wrote: >On Wednesday 15 May 2002 04:10 pm, civileme wrote: > >>Well, I had to btreak down and get something that would give me a little >>experience supporting NVidia installs. >> >>As you know, NVidia keeps their 3d drivers secret and proprietary, which >>means those drivers don't get on the download edition, and since the >>driver's wrapper has to be recompiled for each new kernel, it is >>difficult to make the commercial offering work properly--since linux >>distros don't have the source, the installation is always non-trivial. >> >>After looking around, I decided to build something that could dual-boot >>for testing purposes and also fit in a small case with a CDRW/DVD as the >>only 5.25" drive, so I chose the ASUS A7N266-VM >> ><snip> > >What kind of a box did you put it in? > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Inwin 500D desktop with a heavy power supply for that size, 180 watts, and with two ATAPI UDMA5 drives with RAID0 across the entire linux setup, one RAID 0 for each of /, /usr, /home, /var, /opt. I don't recomend that setup yet as the installer program cannot run update on it, but with a little old 1G Duron it acts more like an XP2000+.
I am less than happy to report that the manual must have been mistranslated, because There are drivers for W2K and WinXP on the drivers disk. THe Embedded network card is buried beyond the reach of anything but their driver, and they have no linux driver, (but their sound setup does have a linux driver on cd, which was unnecessary). Civileme
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