Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:23:50 -0800 From: Vincent Janelle <random@carnagecopia.com> To: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org, hlwatts@hiwaay.net, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Visual Workstation 330 Message-ID: <20020325102350.3c00430d.random@carnagecopia.com> In-Reply-To: <20020325120239.B9675@hexapodia.org> References: <000b01c1d41b$6bdaee40$944cb4d8@hiwaay.net> <20020325124253.E15966-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <20020325094440.3bec515f.random@carnagecopia.com> <20020325120239.B9675@hexapodia.org>
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--=.6BDWsCclQSYw,I Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yeah, after spending the required 10 seconds to look on the internet, this motherboard appears to be powered by the VIA apollo chipset. I've got a couple of machines running these and they appear to be stable, but they're not exactly high-use machines. On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:02:39 -0600 Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote: > The SGI VW series is confusing, fer sure. Vincent is thinking of the VW > 540 and 320, which were truly amazing non-standard boxes that died > their deserved death. (Their internal design was more like the O2 than > like a standard PC.) You will have poor luck running anything but NT on > the VW 540/320, even Linux doesn't have all the necessary hacks (and it > doesn't have accelerated drivers for the graphics, which are the only > thing that makes the machine special). > > The 330, on the other hand, is a much more standard PC-like box with AGP > graphics and a fairly standard BIOS (I believe). These boxes didn't > require any freaky special HAL, they run bog-standard NT and Linux. You > will probably have decent luck getting this board running under FreeBSD. --=.6BDWsCclQSYw,I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE8n2s4T+ow5T/THzQRAraNAKCYfrhazzRZVObPGR7e81XlaFIpMACfemvl 6ah4r+JP1Qc0lm8CMi9SlKQ= =karA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.6BDWsCclQSYw,I-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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