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Re: [PLUG] Hardware acqusition - dumb newbie question
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Respectable use of a Gateway. I've spent too much time playing with such
and thinking "If I had a hammer..."
I wanted the Gateway cow made into steak.
bs
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Mike wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:45:21 -0500, "John Desmond" <jafd@fast.net> said:
> > Salutations, gentlefolk,
> >
> > Yours truly was surveying the pile of //junk// stuf in his home,
> > concluded that I have almost enuf parts to build another computer,
> > thought 'twould be a good idea to make it a Linux box and get
> > started climbing the learning curve... (OK, an Asus PZL-97
> > motherboard and a Celeron-300, aren't the latest, but are still too
> > new to donate to museum)
> >
> > Anyway, I'll need video and sound cards. Want to make sure they have
> > Linux drivers. Suggest, please, a good vendor.
>
> Try Matrox for your video card. I got a Millennium II for $10 on eBay
> and it seems very well supported -- works flawlessly on my system. I had
> a Diamond Speedstar Pro before but I discovered there's something about
> its chipset that makes it not play nicely with the more recent
> drivers... or something like that. Personally I wouldn't bother getting
> the sound card configured or even getting a sound card until you've got
> the rest of the system working; YMMV.
>
> FYI, I'm running Gentoo on an old Gateway 2000 with an AMD K6 233 MHz
> CPU; I replaced the hard drive and maxed out the RAM (only to 256M, but
> that's better than the 32M it came with). Now the CPU is the real
> bottleneck in this system, as it will probably be in yours. Which is
> something to consider before you go for a "compile everything from
> scratch" distro like Gentoo, though it has other benefits.
>
> Mike
>
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