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tracyde
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Personally I love the PA-RISC platform. The only thing that it needs is support for the FX series of cards (I have an FX4 and FX5). I have a Visualize J5600 dual 500mhz 64-bit processors and 1.5gb of ram, it makes a kick butt web server, but could do much much more.
I am currently in the process of attempting to get an S3 Virge pci video card working with it, I want to use X apps so darn bad on this system.
I have heard that the VisualizeEG graphics cards work well with the X.org drivers but do not have one to try, if the S3 card does not work then I am going to go out and by an EG.
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squawker
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Who says they won't run Gentoo? B2000 and C3000 should both be okay with any recent kernel. There are two potential problem areas with those models:
- SuckyIO (officially superio) support has been a bit of a bugbear, but should be usable in recent kernels.
- B2000 has FXe graphics (not sure about C3000). FX series graphics aren't supported. The easiest option for X is an HP Vis-EG PCI card, although some people have reported success with Voodoo and Matrox cards.
The 400MHz 64-bit PA-RISC cpu (PA-8500/PCX-W) should be pretty fast and has a great big onboard L1 cache. Nice machines!
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poulpe
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- B2000 has FXe graphics (not sure about C3000). FX series graphics aren't supported.
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C3000 is exactly the same machine than the B2000 except that the graphic card is not integrated on the motherboard. Generally entry-level configs have a FXe graphic card on one PCI slot.
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- B2000 has FXe graphics (not sure about C3000). FX series graphics aren't supported.
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C3000 is exactly the same machine than the B2000 except that the graphic card is not integrated on the motherboard. Generally entry-level configs have a FXe graphic card on one PCI slot.
I did not try X but framebuffer is working fine on them. |
Yeah, B2000 and C3000 are basically the same architecture. In pedantic mode I could point out that C3000 has PCI-64/66, which B2000 doesn't have. It has twice as many Elroy PCI bridges (4 vs. 2), narrow SE SCSI (as well as Ultra2-wide LVD which both have), and twice as many memory slots (8 vs. 4). B2000 has FXe as mentioned.
FXe is *not supported* as a framebuffer, and is thus unuseable from XFree86/Xorg. It works with STI console (sticon). Maybe one day ggg can get the FX docs scrubbed and released from HP, but don't hold your breath.
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rino
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:02 pm Post subject: hpj5600, video alternatives |
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Hi Folks, as many of you my Hppa Gentoo box(j5600) is up&running, unfortunately without the FEx video card working.
I am looking to buy a new PCi card , and so far the RADEON 7000 64MB DDR PCI seems to be the right balance $$$$.
I am wondering if anyone already test this HW/similar, any alternative suggestions are appreciate. 
Thank you
Rino
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