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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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