First post, by 386SX
Hi,
which is the oldest and/or latest Win9x/ME compatible vga by ATi/AMD already built on the PCI-Express socket if they still existed?
I'm considering a dual o.s. machine 'Win ME + latest Linux' to have a both old and modern usable home machine and I've this P4M890 based (P4M8907MA-RS2H) Foxconn Socket 775 mb that seems to sort of work in Lubuntu while I had NDIS error problem installing Windows 98 (with 512MB of ram strangely). I'm trying to understand where was the problem cause I'm using more or less time correct components even an IDE disk.
I can't be lucky with the vga on modern Linux kernels/xorg cause the Unichrome open drivers should be too old for that, but I might use some PCI (Geforce FX 5200 PCI) or PCI-EX cards..
I'll still be limited by the 512MB Win9x/ME limit of ram but I'll look for the tweak for that.
I noticed that latest linux kernel didn't seem to understand or have at all, the VIA usb drivers so I've to use another (VIA ironically) PCI one.
As cpu I'm using a Pentium 4 661 latest P4 3,6Ghz 64bit core but I could go up to the Pentium D 960, or back to the Celeron D ones. 😀 Ram is 2GB DDR2 @ 533 and it seems to see up to 3GB (2GB should be the maximun strangely).
Thanks for any hints.