Hello, I would like to ask for an advice on installing FreeBSD on my very old PC. Not sure if this is the right subforum, but since I'm asking for hardware compatibility only, it will have to do for now.
So, here are the specs:
CPU: Intel Celeron D 356 (Cedarmill) (will "intel" driver work with this?)
RAM: 512 MB
dGPU: Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440 (what would be performance with generic "nv" driver? I saw that only nv supports this card on 11.1 RELEASE)
iGPU: SiS 660 (as a backup)
Network: should be supported, it's some rather old ethernet card. No Wi-Fi on this dinosaur, so no problems on that end.
Monitor: ThinkVision 1024x768 @60Hz
All input devices should be supported, of course.
The case has a DVD drive, 2 USB ports in the front and 4 in the back.
The only catch is that the cable for my monitor is missing, so I can't try it out right away. I can buy it, though. And this won't be urgent really, since I have a recent working laptop chugging Win10 along. So the purpose of this installation is trying out and learning FreeBSD for fun.
EDIT: This PC ran Debian Wheezy, Jessie and has Xubuntu 14.04 on it right now.
So, here are the specs:
CPU: Intel Celeron D 356 (Cedarmill) (will "intel" driver work with this?)
RAM: 512 MB
dGPU: Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440 (what would be performance with generic "nv" driver? I saw that only nv supports this card on 11.1 RELEASE)
iGPU: SiS 660 (as a backup)
Network: should be supported, it's some rather old ethernet card. No Wi-Fi on this dinosaur, so no problems on that end.
Monitor: ThinkVision 1024x768 @60Hz
All input devices should be supported, of course.
The case has a DVD drive, 2 USB ports in the front and 4 in the back.
The only catch is that the cable for my monitor is missing, so I can't try it out right away. I can buy it, though. And this won't be urgent really, since I have a recent working laptop chugging Win10 along. So the purpose of this installation is trying out and learning FreeBSD for fun.
EDIT: This PC ran Debian Wheezy, Jessie and has Xubuntu 14.04 on it right now.