On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 04:06:51PM -0400, Mark Roszko wrote:
I really think Pentium compatible is horrible terminology ever since
Intel absolutely destroyed the name and now theres old generation I3s
rebranded as Pentiums.
Also a Pentium 3 probably can't be used with any of the required video
cards.
raised to Pentium IV, ok?
I personally would remove Windows XP. It is a dead and unsupported OS.
We should not encourage people keeping their botnet computer and
supporting issues they may have.
I can understand this but, as Lorenzo reported, there are many XPs
still
in use and, given you use it behind a firewall and do not use it to
navigate on Internet, how can it possibly harm anyone?
Regarding Radeon cards, there are issues:
http://kicad-pcb.org/help/known-system-related-issues/#_bad_graphics_cards
ok will add a link for those issues...
"pre-HD" is also flawed for Intel cards as in the case of the broken
4500 GMA theres a "M" and "HD" version released simultaneously. Needs
to be reworded to mean no cards that came before the HD-Graphics
series rather than Intel's previous HD suffixing.
Ok reworded, check if you think it is better now...
I would keep python off because its no longer an system thing and just
general userland stuff. Also its "recommended" not "required" to run
kicad.
ok deleted
lets try it again:
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Common System Requirements (hardware specs):
- Pentium-compatible PC (Pentium IV, Athlon or more-recent system
recommended);
- 512 MB RAM (1024 MB RAM recommended);
- Up to 500 MB available hard disk space;
- 1280x1024 resolution (higher resolution recommended), with at
least 16K colors.
- Graphic card with at least OpenGL 2.0, with hardware shaders.
Check
the opengl specs of the card:
- Intel: No cards that came before the HD-Graphics, regardless
of the wording HD.
Intel cards that are reported working starts from model HD2000
and higher.
- NVidia: from NVIDIA support page:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_ogl2_support.html
NVIDIA support for OpenGL 2.0 begins with the Release 75
series of drivers.
GeForce FX (NV3x), GeForce 6 Series (NV4x), NV3xGL-based
Quadro FX and NV4xGL-based
Quadro FX GPUs, and all future NVIDIA GPUs support OpenGL 2.0.
- Ati: should work any modern Radeon chip even in the APU (GPU
in the main processor).
but check for some issues here:
http://kicad-pcb.org/help/known-system-related-issues/#_bad_graphics_cards
Common System Requirements (software specs):
- wxwidgets 3.0.2
- wxpython 3.0.1
- See: http://kicad-pcb.org/help/known-system-related-issues/ for
software specific issues.
Specific System Requirements
Windows
Apple Mac OSX
GNU/Linux
Other OSes
Windows
The software and hardware prerequisites for installing KiCad on a
Windows
system are as follows:
Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7,
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, or Windows 10;
Apple - Mac OS X
The software and hardware prerequisites for installing on a Apple Mac
OS
X computer are as follows:
Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or higher;
GNU/Linux
The software and hardware prerequisites for installing on Linux are as
follows:
Any modern Linux distro with OpenGl 2.0 or higher elabled
graphics should go. For example Linux Ubuntu 12.04 or higher.
Android/Linux
The Android/Linux platform is actually NOT supported.
Other OSes
Other systems (notably Unix *BSD) may be fully working but are actually
not ufficially supported.
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Comments?
If you agree we can add this page on the site...
--
Marco Ciampa
I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
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