Re: New PC

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_kth.se)
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:05:00 +0100

john <nospam@email.net> writes:

> Hi everyone
>
> I need to buy a PC fast. That, for me, means buying from PC World
> because that's the only place to get a machine round here. Anyway, I
> need to make sure the new machine will run Linux OK, particularly SuSE
> Linux 9. I'm looking in the £400-£500 price range. Actually I'm
> looking at the PACKARD BELL 5004 but is its gfx hardware - SIS 651GX -
> supported? (The SIS SiS650* is in the SuSE hardware list - does that
> mean the 651 will work or not?)

The SiS650 series is supported, but only for 2D. There will be no 3D
support unless SiS releases specs for the chips. So far, they have
denied to do so. Look for something with an ATI graphics board. 

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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