Mark Pecaut wrote:
> On 3/6/06, betojsp@tutopia.com <betojsp@tutopia.com> wrote:
>> - Are they suitable to run OpenBSD on them.
>
> Here is a dmesg from a GX620. I can report that everything works
> quite well, including X.

You prompted me to go back and take another shot at X on a Optiplex 620.
I've (again) had no luck getting it to work with the standard,
on-board video. What did you do to configure X on it? (I didn't see an
extra video card in your dmesg).

I can report that with a Pentium-D chip in them, a recent OpenBSD/i386
snapshot will use both cores on an O620 (I should test OpenBSD/amd64, I
guess). SATA support seems to work pretty well, though I haven't really
put it through its paces much with OpenBSD yet.

The Minitower case will take an Accusys box nicely, though you have to
leave off (or cut) the plastic bezel (it actually doesn't look all bad
off) and you will not get an internal CD. Spend the extra $9 to get the
PS/2 and second serial port adapter...even if you don't care now, you
will wish you had it at SOME time in the future, and the $9 is cheaper
than the USB converters that don't work as well. In spite of the case
size, there are only two PCI slots in the minitower case, which is the
same number as the smaller "desktop" case (and if you need that PS/2
adapter, you lost one of them...or the PCI Express slot).

Nick.