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Advice on Hardware



I'm thinking of buying a new PC. However, I want to be sure my hardware
will be supported. I've read the Hardware HOWTO, and I *think* I
understand it, but there are a number of things I am still concerned
about:

* The supplier wasn't 100% clear on the exact video card spec - it's a
Jetway make, using S3 ViRGE chipset. Is this likely to be OK?
* The video card is an AGP model. All I can find in the HOWTO and the
XFree86 notes is that "some" AGP cards work. Will this one??!?

* The sound card is a "Creative Labs PCI 64" card. Is that likely to
work? It's a plug and pray card - does that cause me problems?

The rest of the spec seems unlikely to be a problem - Pentium II 333MHz,
BX 100MHz motherboard, 64M RAM, 4.3G EIDE UDMA disk, 32x CD ROM (IDE).
Does anybody know of any issues or relevant questions I should ask?

Thanks in advance,

Paul Moore.


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