[ale] new PC

[Armsby John-G16665]

I think you are correct.  My research says buy it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Powell [mailto:julian at zentech.org]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 5:55 PM
To: Armsby John-G16665
Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: Re: [ale] new PC



I'm pretty sure the SB Live! Value is the exact same PCI card as the
regular SB Live w/o the extra daughter card/header that supports digital
I/O.  the daughter card connects to the PCI card w/ a ribbon cable but
does not plug into the PCI bus.


Julian Powell
www.zentech.org


> Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
> I am buying a new PC.  Dual boot windows 98 or 2000 and Mandrake 8.0.
> I will be using CompuTime, I guess, in Atlanta.
> 
> My first question is compatibility on the video card.  The default
> cheapie is a Pine Group 16 meg AGP Card.  The chipset I believe is
> nVidia Riva TNT2-M64 True Bit based upon looking up the 32 meg
> equivalent on the internet.  I think I am O.K. here.  I see some Asus
> Riva TNT video cards with a 5.0 Linux rating.......  Other options
> from CompuTime are: GeForce 32MB/V Out, Matrox G450 16MB, ATI Radeon
> DDR 32 MB.  I don't do anything fancy.  I want it to be detected and
> set up.
> 
> My second question is modem:Â  Will the USR 56K PCI/Hardware work?
> They claim it is not a winmodem.  I have been using US Robotics for
> years with Linux.  I am not familiar with the new stuff.
> 
> My third question is the sound blaster card.  I believe The sound
> Blaster Live is a plug and play card as far as Linux is concerned.
> Computime has a SB Live! Value (I don't see that on any list...).
> Failing a recommendation, I will just go back and get the Sound
> Blaster 128 PCI card I had on my old machine.
> 
> I plan to take my HP Colorado Travan tape drive, Iomega zip drive, a
> spare 20Â  gig Maxtor drive, and an ATA 100 controller card and tell
> Computime to add it together with the disk, CDROM, CDROM burner, video
> card, modem, sound card, and 3Com 905 10/100 NIC card which comes with
> the machine. All my old stuff worked with RedHat 6.0 I am sure it will
> work with Mandrake 8.0.
> 
> My problem is the new stuff (for me) is  not specifically found on the
> compatibility lists.....
> 
> A few simple answers would be of great help.  I don't want to start a
> big hardware thread...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John