[haiku] Re: New Machine :) for running Haiku-OS

  • From: Andrew Hudson <hudsonco1@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:33:09 -0400 (EDT)

Do these cards support acceleration? - Andrew


Radeon HD 4000-6000







-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander von Gluck <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: haiku <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 5:17 am
Subject: [haiku] Re: New Machine :) for running Haiku-OS


On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:19:39 +0200, François Revol wrote:
> Le 08/08/2011 14:12, Robert Stiehler a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> in the next Days i plan to buy a new Computer. Haiku-OS should run 
>> on it
>> "best as possible". So maybe someone knows if there are "show 
>> stopper" in
>> the hardware configuration i wan't to buy.
>>
>> That's the hardware configuration i wan't to buy, some known 
>> problems?:
>>
>> regards,
>> Robert
>>
>>   Processor processor brand: AMD processor type: AMD Athlon 
>> processor
>> speed:3 GHzprocessor socket:SocketAM3core count:4
>> RAM RAM size: 4096 MB RAM type: DDR SDRAM Hard-drive Hard-drive size
>> 500 GBHard-drive "speed":HDD 7200 rpmHard-drive interface:Serial
>> ATA-600Other drives:DVD+-RW
>> Grafic Graphics Coprocessor: Nvidia Graphic scard brand: NVIDIA
>> GeForce 7025Graphic memory size:256 MBInterface Graphics
>
>
> The graphics card might not be supported natively... you'll likely be
> forced into VESA mode.

A quick note on the graphics cards. Radeon HD 4000-6000 (especially the 
54+ range)
are great cards and Haiku *should* (hopefully) have basic extended mode 
setting in
the future (lots of work is ongoing to get these working)

Thanks!
  -- Alex


 

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