Back in the mid-'90s I ran XFree86 3.x on a similar machine. The X-server itself will run fine with a light-weight window manager like twm or fvwm, but with so little ram you can hardly run any applications. I found xterms and stuff to work, but until you get about 16 Meg of ram, more complex apps like web browsers aren't usable (the machine starts swapping to disk too badly). The key issue will be your video card. Alot of old video cards aren't well supported in new XFree86 versions because nobody has these cards and nobody develops or tests them, so you might need to use an older XFree86 version. This is particularly the case if you don't have PCI and this machine has an ISA or VLB video card. I think your first priority should be finding out what the video card is. If you have PCI it will show up in /proc/pci. If it's pre-PCI, there's an app called SuperProbe which should be able to tell you what you've got. Mark. On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Sirio The best wrote: > I have an hold 486 66Mhz with 8Mb of RAM, two hdd around 100 and 200 Mb, but they can be upgraded with a 4Gb if it's supported by the bios... I don't know the video card... I think that it's an integrated one or an old one. I see also from a friend of mine an old 486 or one of the firsts Pentiums with 800 Mb of hdd, maybe they change it so maybe i can purchase it, but i don't know anything of it... Maybe It's like my 486... > Tnx > Sirio > > Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's a difficult question to answer. It will probably > run with 8 Meg of ram on a 386. Whether it's usable in that > condition is another matter. Perhaps you could specify what > you'd like to run it on? The most important issue is usually > how well your video card is supported. > > > Mark. > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, ziriuz wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Do you know the minima requirements of Xfree?? > > Tnx a lot > > Sirio > > > > _______________________________________________ > > XFree86 mailing list > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
