Thus spake Brian Clark: > Greetings, > > It's been a long time since I've attempted to run Debian on my > workstation. The last time was around slink frozen I think. Wasn't my > time.. > > First, I have a feeling I'm going to burn for this one, but.. why is > Debian (all versions?) not running 2.4 kernels? Please, please go > easy.. :-) > > Second, I've checked the hardware compatibility lists, but I'm still > unsure of my SCSI controller. My motherboard is a Asus P2B-DS with the > AIC-7890 on-board controller. The last time I checked, there was > unofficial (flaky?) support for it > <http://people.debian.org/~joey/linx.html> and the link for those boot > disks is now a 404. Do I not need them anymore? > > For the record, I'm planning to install woody this weekend some time, > and here's the important hardware in case anyone can give me a > definite "yeah those are fine" to make me feel a lot more at ease: > > Motherboard: Asus P2B-DS (AIC-7890) > (^^^ I have no IDE disks, so it's gotta work) > Graphics: Diamond Viper TNT2 Ultra 32Mb (nVidia) > Sound: SB Live! > CD-RW: HP 8100i > USB devices: > MS Explorer Mouse (the ball-less-laser-instead kind) > MS Natural Keyboard > > And finally, this may be a long shot, but am I going to get 2 channels > working on sound card? Front/Rear satellites plus a sub? I have some > great speakers, but I'd hate to have to listen to them from a Windows > machine. > > Thank you very much. > > -- > -Brian Clark | PGP is spoken here: 0xE4D0C7C8 The onboard SCSI should be supported just fine by the aic7xxx module - I'm fairly sure it's in both 2.2.x and 2.4.x - I've used it for a while at any rate, and have used both kernels with this box. The SB live takes the emu10k1 module, and it works OK, but I don't know about both channels - write back off list if you get it going, because I've been thinking about upgrading my speakers and sound. I have no idea about your vid card, but it should be fine for 2D under X and possibly 3D with X4. the USB devices will take some kernel tweaking, but shouldn't be hard. Good luck, it sounds like a nice box. Steve -- Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth in motion.
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