| Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this.
I have an old IBM Aptiva M71 with a NEC XV15 monitor that I am going to upgrade for use with linux, preferably the Debian Distribution. This means maxing out the RAM to 128 and getting rid of the mwave sound/modem card and installing a new video card. The cards I'm considering to replace the mwave are the ATI Xpert 128 pci card for video and the Soundblaster AWE64 ISA card for sound. I've read the documentation for the cards currently supported by the latest release of Debian, both cards are supported. What I am looking for is a person who actually has either of these cards in their system or has experience installing them under linux. I would like to find out if they are happy with how the cards performed with linux, if the cards were a pain in the butt to get to work properly, that sort of thing. The functions this PC will be performing when it is up and running will be to play games and web browsing. I know, light weight and trivial jobs for a linux box but I need something that won't crash every five minutes and that kids can't accidentally delete an important system file and make the computer unusable. P.S. Price of the cards is a major issue, although I'm sure their are cards out there that give better performance and work better under linux. |