RE: [Sheflug] A potential Linux user needs help to get started

["John Cordner" <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

Matt

Don't worry about the graphics card. I have a Diamond Viper 770 (not the
Ultra) in one of my machines and it's supported under RedHat and I'm sure I
saw support for the Ultra there as well. I also bought a GeForce Annihilator
Pro for my other machine and within weeks there were Linux drivers
available - that's how it works with Linux. I don't know what SB card you're
getting but I have SB Live! in both my machines and although not supported
under RedHat 6.1 I did get them working by downloading the ALSA
drivers/libraries/utils from alsa.project.org (which as far as I know is not
part of standard Linux distributions yet). RedHat 6.2 does support the SB
Live!

Your hard disk will be OK. I would have thought that your only issue would
be getting Linux drivers for your DVD drive. I downloaded some for my drive
but haven't installed them yet - so at present under Linux it's just a
normal CD drive. Maybe someone else knows more on this.

Hope this helps

John

-----Original Message-----
From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
Behalf Of Matt Fairtlough
Sent: 07 July 2000 11:59
To: sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] A potential Linux user needs help to get started


Many thanks to everyone who responded so quickly to my queries.  Several of
you have suggested that the shop in question don't know what they are
talking
about, and certainly that seems to be the case for linux systems.  And they
are offering me such a good price, too :-( The main problems with the system
suggested would seem to now be the graphics card/chipset which is not listed
as linux compatible by SuSE and the hard disk which isn't mentioned either.
As far as I can see, the SB PCI128 sound card _is_ compatible, provided you
use ALSA (which I guess is supported by all Linux distributions??).

Sorry to ask further, but I don't understand the graphics card/chipset
issue.
Can anyone point me to a guide to this?  What is the difference between the
card and the chipset?  Is there a real choice of chipset?

Finally:  can anyone recommend a local shop who CAN build a linux-compatible
system with reasonably high-spec components?

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