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Re: Video board, CD-ROM drive
Jacques Goldberg <goldberg@phep1.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> Shalom all around.
> I need advice to help new potential Linux user about to purchase a machine.
> None of the following two devices is listed in the HOWTO's.
>
> 1-Has anybody used the following video board (XFree86 of course):
> PCI 1MB ARC1000 OCTEK (the chipset is ARC or ARK says the dealer) ?
>
New XFREE (>=3.1.2) has support for it in the SVGA server, but w/o accellarator
features. Commercial X-servers (Xinside for sure) have accel drivers for this
chipset.
> 2-Has anybody used the following IDE-ATAPI CD drive: ACER CD-743E ?
> The Hardware Howto seems to suggest that any IDE-ATAPI drive would
> work. Can somebody positively confirm that I read correctly?
I don't have this CDROM, but the general statement is correct - concerning using
CD as mountable media. If you plan to use it with some audioplayer software, you
may get in trouble.
Evgeny.
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