On 10/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's an ECS K8M800-M2, a micro-ATX, socket 754 board with > onboard unichrome video that only works as far as I can tell > under the VESA XOrg driver. There's ongoing development, > however, at http://unichrome.sf.net.
I have used that driver. My current chipset is a VIA PM800/VT8236 (Biostar PM4VMA-M). It lacked some features like Gamma Correction so I couldn't use it. > I'm not a fragfreak. But I find the Radeon 7000 to be well > supported by current Debian Xorg packages. At least they're > good enough for for my favorite games: Planet Penguin Racer > (aka Tuxracer), Crack Attack, and NeverBall. In the past I > had to install some unofficial packages (from a Debian > developer). Neither am I a gamer... but I got the FX5500 for the DVI as it's the cheapest current card with DVI output. > I have only one drive, but I tend to schedule my burning > sessions when I'm away from the computer (e.g. eating > dinner). And I tend to burn only at 2.5x (DVD+RW) since 4-8x > burns tend to be partly unreadable in plain DVD (or combo) > readers. BTW it's the first time I came across the acronym > PATA (smells icky ;-). I see. That would be a productivity hit for me. I'm looking forward to burning at 16X while doing normal work. That would need a dedicated drive to feed the DVD writer. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
