hi ya john you will need to get the x11 and nic drivers from nvidia.com works good other than that bending over backwards c ya alvin On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, John Griffiths wrote:g'day all, I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running deb) I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new NIC if needed). i was thinking of doing a backdoor knoppix install to get the X 4.2.1. does anyone know of any other gotcha's or snafu's i need to bear in mind?