> Lend27 wrote: > > I have setup a few linux debian boxes in the past year, but I am by no means > an expert. > Based upon my trials, tribulations,failures and ultimate successes, I > recommend the following: > > 1. Soundblaster Live sound card > 2. NVidia Geforce 2 MX 32 meg video card. ( Inexpensive but it does a great > job on 2D and 3D with the nvidia drivers. > 3. Hauppauge WinTV card, if you're so-inclined. > 4. IBM Deskstar Hard Drives. Great speed and quiet. > 5. Iomega internal zip drives, again if you're so inclined. > 6. 3Com internal modems. ( I have installed 2 with no problems. One was a > PCI, the other an ISA. ) > 7. Plextor CD-RW.
my choices are: - sound blaster PCI 128 (can't beat it for ease of use) - matrox G400 if you don't need 3D, or Voodoo3(any version) if you want 3D - hauppauge wintv (bt878 or something similar) - ibm drives(any kind they all rule) - as for modem, any modem you gotta be careful, even recent 3com pci modems can be a real bitch to get working in linux. i can't honestly reccomend any internal modem these days. most of that is because of the ones ive used in the past 2 years none of them cut it. external is the way to go. the modem i have is a zoomtel 56k. works great, it has jumpers and i have it hardcoded in such a configuration that i can use all 3 com ports on my system without a conflict(no easy task ..) very unlikely that my modem is still on the market. - nic - 3com 3c905b or 905c, older intel eepro cards, realtek8139 (while its a piece of shit overall it works well in linux) - plextor cdrom works great - scsi card - adaptec anything 2940 and up - raid - mylex dac960 - cdrom - sony, toshiba or something similar(i wouldn't personally pay money for an asus or aopen cdrom) and of course, debian 2.2r3, linux 2.2.19 and xfree86 3.3.6 i have 3-4 desktops with variations on the above hardware, and i never have a crash, never have to reboot. its great. no headaches. now back to playing with my new tivo ....... nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
