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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:38:37 +0100, Tim Joseph <tim@josep.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Some good places to check for HW compatability are www.suse.com and
www.redhat.com.

>1. Intel Pentium II 300MHz, Intel 440BX Chipset

Fine.

>2. Video Card
>either    8mb ATI 3D Xpert98
>or        8mb Matrox Productiva G100
>or        8mb Hercules Terminator 128/3D AGP

Not sure.  I made a point of getting the older Matrox Millenium II AGP to
ensure compatability.

>3. Audio Card
>either    Creative Labs AWE65 Wavetable Soundcard
>or        Ensoniq AudioPCI on board
>or        Creative Labs SoundBlaster Vibra 16 Soundcard

All sound OK.  See http://www.4front-tech.com/osshw.html

>4. Internal IDE (ATAPI) Zip Drive

Should be fine.

>5. Hard drive (Ultra ATA DMA) and CDROM are both standard (IDE?).

SCSI support is still probably better than Ultra DMA support.

>6. Monitor
>either    17" ADI Microscan 5GT
>or        17" MAG D700 TCO92
>or        17" Taxan Ergovision 730 TCO95
>or        19" ADI TCO95 Microscan 6P

I don't like MAG monitors.  I'm not familiar with Taxan.  The 19" ADI is a
very good value.

Here's a 1280x1024@85Hz modeline for the MicroScan 6P:

Modeline "1280x1024" 157.50 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072 
+hsync +vsync 

(All on one line).  That's just a standard VESA mode actually, but for some
reason Redhat's Xconfigurator tool doesn't configure it.

>7. Memory is "Ultra Fast" (100Mhz?) SDRAM.

Should be fine.

Dave Cook