Re: [Sheflug] Hardware Questions

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Dean Rickles wrote:
> 
> I could really do with any help at all here. I've just got a Dell Precision
> 210 and want to add a few things to it:
> 
I can help you out on these two..

> Thirdly, a TV-tuner card. I'm thinking Hauppage Win-TV because of
> KWinTV. Has anyone had this working or know of any success
> stories?

 I've been running a Hauppauge Win-TV (the nicam version) for about two
years now. It's easy(ish) to get setup, at least once you know what
you're doing.

 I use Gnome, rather than KDE, but I can't see there being too many
problems with KWinTV. I think I tried it a long time ago, and got it to
work even then.
 I use xawtv, and it works a treat.

> 
> Lastly, I'm adding a second processor. Does Linux find both processors
> during installation? (Both processors are PIII 550mhz)

 I don't know about the other distros, but with RedHat you need to tell
the installer to install the kernel-smp rpm, which is basically a kernel
image with support for SMP/multiple processors.
 It then defaults to the SMP mode on boot, although you have the option
to boot a normal kernel, with support for only one processor. Don't ask
me why you'd want to tho' :-)

 You're probably as well to do a kernel rebuild if you feel up to it
after installing the system anyway, to slim things down a bit. Just make
sure you check the SMP support option and enhanced realtime clock
option, and that's the only difference to a normal rebuild.

 Again, I've got a dual PII 400 system, and it trogs along happily.
 
 Any bother, gimme a shout.

 Hope this helps.

 Baz.
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