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Cut and paste info about the 430VX chipset from some of Rodney's old

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David E. O'Brien 1996-12-27 08:09:52 +00:00
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<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.54 1996/12/26 05:56:20 jkh Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: hw.sgml,v 1.55 1996/12/27 07:14:11 obrien Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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stepping - you have an A2 stepping if the 82439HX chip has a
marking of "SU102". You have an A1 stepping if it's not
marked with an S-number or if the number is "SU087".
<tag>430VX <em>(often mistakenly called Triton-III)</em>:</tag>
The 430VX is a low cost design alternative to the 430HX, it
is designed for use with video cards that use main memory
rather than their own onboard memory. It also has a memory
space restriction of 128MB, though it does add support for
SDRAM. However, it will not cache memory above 64MB.
<tag>Orion:</tag> Early versions of this chipset suffered from
a PCI write-posting bug which can cause noticeable performance
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hardware.
<sect1><heading>* Memory</heading>
<p>The mininum amount of memory you must have to install FreeBSD is 5 MB.
<p>The mininum amount of memory you must have to install FreeBSD is 8 MB.
Once your system is up and running you can <ref id="kernelconfig:building"
name="build a custom kernel"> that will use less memory.
If you use the boot4.flp you can get away with having only 4 MB.
name="build a custom kernel"> that will use less memory. For FreeBSD
2.1, 2.1.5, and 2.1.6 the required mininum amount of memory is 5 MB.
If you use the boot4.flp you can install with only 4 MB.
<sect1><heading>* BIOS</heading>