Re: Does 5.0.7 run well on modern hardware?
- From: spcecdt@xxxxxxxxxx (John DuBois)
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:15:29 -0500
In article <K4sL3t.1F0@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Stephen M. Dunn <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PCI Express: All remotely recent motherboards with support for
remotely recent CPUs use PCIe. OSR6 explicitly supports PCIe; I have
been unable to find any statement, either way, about whether 5.0.7 does.
Wikipedia suggests that the difference is in hardware and an OS which
supports PCI should work with PCIe. Is this true in practice? With
the possible exception of video (see the next question), I am unlikely
to have any PCIe cards, or at least any that 5.0.7 needs to talk to,
but I *will* have at least one PCI card, and often the support for
"legacy" buses in chipsets is done by making them essentially subsidiaries
of the more modern bus - which could mean that if PCIe isn't supported,
the PCI cards won't work, either.
Video: 5.0.7's list of supported video cards is, at least for the
most part, stuck in the early 2000s, with a handful of AGP cards being
the most recent models. Of course, AGP is long since dead, so whether
I use built-in video on the motherboard or an add-in PCIe card, it
won't be supported. There's always the old VESA BIOS driver; how
well does this work with modern video (motherboard or PCIe)? If
it matters, the video is likely to be either a built-in Intel GMA3100
or similar, or a low-end ATI card such as a Radeon HD2600 Pro; I
don't do anything that requires a high-end video card, but I do need
X Windows to work properly.
I'm running 506 on a Supermicro X6DA8-G2, which has a couple of PCIe slots.
I'm using an ATI Radeon X300 PCIe board with the Xorg server. Works fine.
John
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