On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:56:17PM -0500, Michael Danicich wrote: > Modem: Go with external. You can rest assured they are not WinModems and > will work under Linux. My USRobotics 56k external > modem worked great up until I got DSL. :) > > Sound Card: I've only used a Creative AWE64 Gold card. It has worked almost > flawlessly using the Sound Blaster driver. > > Video Card: Matrox makes some decent cards that are well-supported under > Linux. I've also used ATI cards, but I've had some troubles > with them under Linux. They all worked eventually, but it took some work to > get there. > > Mike > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > > > Well i have given up on trying to configured Windows / Linux together. I > > can't get the hardware right and don't feel like fucking with it > anymore. I wanna build a computer just for linux-debian. I know what kinda > motherboard and KMD processor i wanna get but could > someone please list what i should use for a modem, sound card, video card > that will configure perfect and won't require much work but > installing it and configuring X Windows. Thanks to all those who respond! > > > > Andrew J Woodill > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
For more modern hardware: SB Live based sound cards are well supported NVidia Geforce 2 video cards work well in 4.0.x (not sure about 3.3.x), and have excellent OpenGL support with NVidia's (unfortunately) closed-source drivers. -Nelson
