new system shaping up

Brent Harding bharding at ufw2.com
Tue Oct 3 21:44:37 EDT 2000


My video card, or maybe the mother board came with a CD that when
installed, put a cis multimedia group in windows. I have no problem with
the machine in linux.
At 04:35 PM 10/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Couple of thing kinda things:
>
>1. I have a Smart And Friendly 4X4X24X CD-RW (SCSI), which works well with
>cdrdao and with cdrecord and the generic SCSI CD-R drivers.
>
>2. Don't get a Sis (Sys? No, I'm fairly sure it's SiS) chipset video card.
>I got one (an AGP one), because I didn't need any great shakes for video,
>and when I tried to install any linux or run stuff, the system seemed to
>lock up randomly. ... Gene and Kirk may remember my Debian trials in May.
>... Anyway, go for a Matrox card--I've seen 8MB video cards for fairly
>inexpensive prices on the net. or ati. Or s3. ... But stay far away from
>SiS.
>
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