From: randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 0.96 out next week
Date: 5 May 92 04:05:52 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:

>Main new things are:

>- X11r5 as ported by obz is supported. It's still in beta-testing (join
>  the X11-channel on the original mailing-list), but as I'm writing this
>  from an xterm under linux, it works pretty well. Changes to pre-0.96
>  are just the socket-code by obz, and some small tweaking by me.

Here's a question.  What CGA cards does it support, and at what
resolutions.   Also, what's the realistic RAM requirements?

-Thanks
-Randy

From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X386 (Was Re: 0.96 out next week)
Date: 5 May 92 06:35:13 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <1992May5.00552.26728@ms.uky.edu> randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) 
writes:
>> [ X window system ]
>
>Here's a question.  What CGA cards does it support, and at what
>resolutions.   Also, what's the realistic RAM requirements?

X definitely won't work with CGA - it won't even work with normal VGA
cards: you need SVGA (and even not just any SVGA card will do).  The
supported cards are et[3|4]000 and some others (pvga? tvga?). 
Resolutions range from 640x480 to 1192x900 (or something like that), all
at 256 colours, depending on what kind of card/monitor combination you
have. 

As to memory: I'm using it in 8MB ram, and no swapping (with a couple of
xterms, xclock and xcalc - nothing major). If I want to recompile the
kernel in an xterm, I'll have to start up swapping (well, actually I've
done it without swapping, but it's tight). I assume it's still useable
in 4MB and a big swap-file, but I'm happy I haven't tested it.

Speed probably depends heavily on the SVGA card: on my 386/33 with a
no-name et4000 card I get totally acceptable performance: scrolling big
windows is slow with other things going on, but not irritatingly so. 
You don't want to make opaque moves, but I can live without that. 

Harddisk space is totally up to you: minimum about 10MB for just the
minimal clients, maximum probably the sky is the limit.

		Linus