Hello all, I would like to buy some new hardware so I can get rid of my stupid RedHat bloatware with its buggy latest betas and alphas and get Potato 2.2r4 on my box here.
The problems I have so far is: video card (I have an NVIDIA GeForce II MX400 AGP card 64MB), modem (I have an external NetComm Roadster II 56K) and sound card (Ess Solo 1). Potato fails to recognise my video card and I am lost and confused about my modem, since I can't get the packages with my Internet connection (not one of them) because when I specify HTTP or FTP as a source for packages, it fails to dial my ISP. Also, once I had setup wvdial, and typed wvdial at the command line, it would dial fine, and it would get all the way to "starting PPP ..." or whatever, then just stop there. It would never acknowledge I was connected. Lynx and so on would say they could not find the host and that I wasn't connected, and yet when I went `echo "Hello World blah blah" > /dev/ttyS0 this would clearly be sent through my modem. (Where to I don't know, maybe the ISP server!) So what I want to do is: - get a video card Potato will recognise or autodetect at install time, pref a PCI card, not AGP (will I get good quality graphics on my desktop with a PCI card, as I do with my AGP card? Apparently AGP cards are always faster. True??) - get a sound card that Potato has a driver for - get a 56K modem (PCI card pref) that Potato can work with Also, can I use a 15inch screen with Debian? It won't stupidly assume I have a 17inch screen like some RedHat programmes?? Thanks! James
