Check out http://ma.us.mirrors.freshmeat.net/appindex/console/drivers.html
for USB stuff. As for vid cards I've had good luck with Matrox Millennium
G200 and the Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro, however for max performance I
prefer the Xi-Graphics Accelerated-X server over XF86 http://www.xig.com/
. The XF86 server is not as responsive for me with these cards but I've
come to learn that with a little time the XF86 servers do improve greatly.
Hope this helps,
Mike
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jon M. Gohr wrote:
>
> I recently failed miserably at my first newbie attempt to install SuSE
> Linux 6.0 on my home built overclocked Celeron 300a system.
>
> Specs in case anyone actually cares:
>
> Inwin A500 case with 300 watt power supply, dual case fans
> Celeron 300a, overclocked to 450 mhz, 4.5 mhz locked clock
> multiplier x 100 mhz front side bus setting. (the processor has
> posted and run well at 464 mhz, haven't tried 504 mhz yet)
> Glacier 4500C, triple fan/heatsink processor cooling unit.
> IBM 12.9 gig deskstar 7200 rpm ultra dma hard drive
> Kenwood True-52X 7 laser head cd-rom drive
> Diamond Monster Sound MX300 Soundcard
> Creative Labs 16 Meg Banshee video card, with a dual fan cooling
> unit.
> 19" Monitor ... blah, blah, blah, blah...and yes there are 7 fans in
> my case!
>
> Anywho ... I had problems relating to hard drive partitioning,
> was using Powerquest's Partition Magic, in hopes of having
> a Win98 and Linux dual boot system. Not to mention that
> the Banshee card seems to be unsupported by XFree86 so I
> wiped out the partition and gave up! Lame I am .... yes.
>
> So essentially I'm looking for any advice in regards to
> what video card I should go out and buy ... NVidia TNT
> based or what? I will say that I HATE ati cards and would
> rather not deal with the garbage they sell. I want something
> that will kick ass in 2d as well as 3d.
>
> Sound card? MX300 ... lost cause? Partitioning ... any
> advice that anyone who's used Partition Magic can offer?
> I successfully set up a Win98/NT Server dual boot configuration,
> took no friggin time at all and have been developing software
> as a profession for the last 10 years (with quite a good record of
> success) so I don't think I'm a lost cause. but Linux makes me feel
> stupid, despite some Unix C development experience (Apertus
> Technologies Enterprise Access if you're interested, middleware
> screen scraping "stuff", interfacing with legacy mainframe app's)
> on Solaris and EXTENSIVE experience with an IBM RS6000 running
> AIX, 6 - 604 processor's, 1.5 gigs of ram and 200 gigs of DASD and
> IBM DB2/6000.
>
> I've spent $400 on win98 license's recently and I won't tell you what my
> copy of Visual Studio Enterprise Edition cost me ... please help
> me break my microshaft shackles!
>
> And what's up with USB peripheral (keyboard and mouse) support
> for Linux?
>
> later,
>
> Jon
>
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