On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:00, Rohit wrote:
Hi all,
I have a couple of questions related to old hardware that I have for my PC. My P-III 450 based config is facing some problems. My questions, can be worded as this..
Well first of all stop bad mouthing a P3-450. Thats still a very good machine...
1. Has anyone here has successfully used Yamaha YMF-719 Opl3-SAx ISA card with kernel 2.4.x ? I have used the card well with manual tweaking in modules.conf with kernel 2.2.18 in SL 7.2 where it worked well. But I have never seen it work with any 2.4.x kernel, with or without ISA PnP.
Yamaha sound cards are supported in a sort of hap-hazard fashion because Yamaha refuses to release any info. I have one that will not work under any version of linux with any sound drivers I've ever seen.
Is there anyone who is using an ISA soundcard with 2.4.x kernel, and has it working? My modules simply fail to load.
I use many older sound cards (isa as well as pci) with Linux. The nifty thing about them is they are cheap cheap cheap. You can probably visit any computer service store (note i didn't say "Sales" store) and pic one up out of their junk bin for $2.50. Second, with arts, which will multiplex sounds for you you can listen to several sound sources at once. This lets you listen to streaming music and still hear your alarms or mail arrival etc. So the short answer is toss the Yamaha if it gives you problems and get an old soundblaster 16 or any ancient sound card.
2. i810 is an old intel chipset on which they used to base motherboards when my P-III 450 was state of the art, or close to it. Does this motherboard support 40GB HDD?
That chipset is not that old, and yes it will support well in excess of 40 gig.
3. The on-board graphics card on this motherboard has Riva TNTx graphics engine, or an SiS62xx card?
Both are supported. What was the question? Any recient SuSE distro ought to run well on that box. Scrounge half a meg of memory and you will have very good performance. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen