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Mine is a pretty nice 1Ghz Pent. 4 processor with 512 megs of mem. 17in display. cd/rw/dvd combo drive. the quickbuttons under the monitor and below the mouse do not work with linux, but i would not use them anyway. i've had trouble getting the sound driver to work - even though it is supported by alsa, it didn't want to work under redhat. suse got the sound working automatically. my onboard network card died and i didn't want to replace the motherboard, so i got a pcmcia card. it is kind of tricky to get it to work right. you have to have the onboard nic set as dhcp as well as activate the pcmcia card. i also set up a netgear ma111 usb wireless on this. works fine - actually it is a bit easier to convince to work than the pcmcia card was. even though the video card is supposed to support 3d, i've never actually gotten it to work.
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8605 [ProSavage PM133]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8605 [PM133 AGP]
00:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
00:10.0 Communication controller: ESS Technology ES2838/2839 SuperLink Modem (rev 01)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA Bridge] (rev 10)
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1e)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1e)
00:11.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ACPI (rev 10)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C380 [ProSavageDDR K4M266] (rev 02)
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $1,500.00 | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.20
Distribution:
suse 9.1
see comments above in description. also, the $1,500 was about 2.5 years ago. i'm sure the price has dropped considerably if they still manufacture it. but, if you have one sitting around, it makes a great linux box.
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