Reply 20 of 22, by appiah4
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The 2d card is Matrox Mystique 220 it should be fine methinks..
Retronautics: A digital gallery of my retro computers, hardware and projects.
The 2d card is Matrox Mystique 220 it should be fine methinks..
Retronautics: A digital gallery of my retro computers, hardware and projects.
Unfortunately you might be disappointed. The Matrox DRI drivers do support some of the Mystique cards, but at least with the G200 they were glacially slow last time I tried.
BSD currently doesn't use DRI for the mga driver, and may be better. Of course, they might have improved the drivers, but there was little appetite under Linux last time I looked. The only reason they bothered with G200 is that the PCIe variant is used as onboard video in various server boards.
Distrowatch to the rescue: https://distrowatch.com/search.php#advanced. Pick an architecture ex. i586, i486 and you'll have a list. From my personal experience I can recommend VectorLinux. Another thing is your clock speed, RAM and the weight of a Desktop Environment that won't be an overkill.