i think the best solution is to look if the hardware your going to buy is supported under linux... i had much more trouble installing linux ( exspecially the xserver ) on a new intel i810 board with a clereron 433 ( graphic & sound onBoard ), than with my "old" k7m... but you just cant give a clear advise... personally i prever amd ( they've much cheaper prozessors with i think equal power to intel )... and try to avoid those one-board stuff... it sucks...
peter On Wednesday 21 February 2001 23:18, Larry Fletcher wrote: > I would like to upgrade from a 486 to Duron based system, but I don't > want to have to compile a kernel. After reading the following it looks > like the standard kernel would work. Am I right or would I be better > off with a Celeron based system? > > Larry > > On Feb 21, 2001, studenten wg wrote: > > hi !! > > > > i have a k7m and the onboard sound worked fine with the standard "potato" > > modules... > > it's the via68xxx and ac97 (insert them with modconf).... > > > > i now have a 2.4.1 kernel and compiled the same modules and it still > > works... > > > > at my first install, i had in mind that the onBoard sound was complicated > > ( i tried that with suse 6.2 one year ago ) so i first compiled the > > alsa-drivers for the via686xxx and that worked also fine (then i just > > tried the kernel modules and kicked alsa )... > > > > hope i could help... > > > > peter
