:: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:52:22 -0500, "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:15:58PM -0500, > Matthew W. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian >> on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would >> appreciate any comments on whether or not there will be any hardware >> problems with it. Many thanks! > It all looks fine to me. The only thing that might give you > trouble are the Soundblaster and TNT cards, tough i'm not sure. > Probably someone more informed about newer graphics and sound > cards will tell you. Maybe ATA/66 is not supported for his motherboard? I'm not sure, but a few chipsets have "partial" support only, and sometimes no support. But I think this is being worked on (and pretty fast). I know some VIA chipsets are not supported (because they're buggy), and others are partially supported (because they're new). J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
