Hi, I'm looking at buying a new PC sometime soon - I've just seen a *very* good looking deal for a 350MHz Pentium II system. As usual, my main compatibility worries are with video and sound cards.
The video card is described by the supplier as an AGP S3 3D card, with a 365 chipset. I've looked through the hardware compatibility HOWTO and the XFree86 website, and I can't see mention of this card or chipset specifically. Can anybody confirm that this card will work OK on Debian (basically Hamm at the moment...) I'll want to use X, and possibly OpenGL (Mesa). Probably not graphics intensive stuff generally, but I'd like to look at getting Quake and some other games running (it's not the end of the world if I fail, but I'd have to run them in DOS/Win95, so maybe it's bad enough... :-) Actually, does anybody know what this card is like, in general - is it 3D accelerated or not, do I need to check things like how much memory it has, will it run Quake II at mega-accelerated speeds, etc etc? If it's not up to much, does anybody have any suggestions as to a good card to get? I've been thinking of one of the ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] cards - are they a good bet? The sound card is described as a SoundBlaster 16 Compatible, made by SoundPro. Again, will this be supported, and/or is it a good card? The only real use I have for sound is likely to be for games (both under Linux and Windows), so it's not a disaster if it's low spec, but I'd like something reasonable... I'm sure that there are some compromises being made in this system, but frankly, I'm not sure where they are. The deal is too good to just ignore, though... Any help (or pointers to useful sources of information) would be much appreciated. Thanks, Paul Moore.
