[Soekris] PCI Video Solutions?

Ted Phelps phelps at gnusto.com
Mon Nov 6 16:40:09 UTC 2006


William Estrada writes:
> Remember, this Soekris is only a 266 mhz, a window manager is a lot of
> over head.

Errm...  not really.  I used a X11 (and a window manager too!) on a
166MHz Pentium for years with a PCI graphics card and the graphics were
entierly acceptable.  I know that the Geode is a different beast, but I
suspect that a net4801 could happily drive a modest graphical set-up.
It's not going to play games or videos, but it should work.  My biggest
concern would be the amount of disk space that X11 is going to consume.

Cheers,
-Ted


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