Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

[Mariano Kamp <mkamp@gmx.de>]

Hi, 

  I bought one of the "cheap" PCs from a german discounter. I am wondering if 
anybody has been able to install Debian on it? Any pointers would be nice.

  www.linux-hardware.de wasn't helpful.

  Allmost all the components are unknown  when looking at the /proc/pci 
output. This is interesting, because I believe they used "brand" components. 
My guess is that they are a little bit modified to make sure that prices are 
not easily comparable. Is this likely to be true? 

Cheers,
Mariano