Re: [Sheflug] Hardware Questions

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Dean Rickles wrote:

> Firstly, an ISA modem. Will the Linux installation program recognize
> ISA devices (Plug-n-Play or otherwise)? If not, how hard is it to get
> it to recognise it?

UM, depends if it's a Winmodem or not. I prefer not to touch ISA with the
proverbial ten foot pole (heh, my mobo doesn't even do ISA :).
 
> Secondly, a 2x AGP graphics card. Can I run a graphics card which
> says it is 4x on a 2x bus? What is the best graphics card under Linux
> (bearing in mind that I like to play Loki Games and have a 21' monitor
> that I like to run at at least 1600x1200 in true colour)?

Should be fine. The ATI cards are quite good (Fury MAXX is not fully
supported in all it's trickery though), 3dfx cards are supported (but
don't get a V5 or people might think you're odd), nVidia do OK with their
binary only drivers.

> 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?

It worked last time I looked. :)
Which was a long time ago. 

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

Yep.


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