RE: [TCLUG:7705] compaq deskpro 450

["Schoenhofen, Kelly" <KSchoenhofen@Carlson.com>]

Yeah... alot of the older Deskpros have Cirrus's in them, or an older Matrox
MGA OEM chipset. None of the ones I have contain a scsi controller - the
connector you see on the video adapter should be a VESA passthrough, if I
recall.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Lukas [mailto:peter@math.umn.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 7:35 PM
To: 'tclug-list@mn-linux.org'
Subject: RE: [TCLUG:7705] compaq deskpro 450


I got a spare junk vid adapter.  How about the scsi controller?  As far as
I can tell, the vid adapter in the box is a cirrus logic with a ultra wide
scsi connector-lookind thing on the inside of it.  Can we safely rule that
compaq is just plain nutty?  :-)

Peter Lukas

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Schoenhofen, Kelly wrote:

> Quick warning with what I got burned with: On quite a few of these older
> 486/Pentium Deskpro's they have an onboard QVision chipset - which XFree86
> does not support, and I have yet to get any to work in VGA16/Mono mode. So
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> they may make a good mini-server, but a poor workstation.
> 
>