Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 01:36:19PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:I'm planning on buying components individually and piecing together a computer. I'd like to install Debian Linux on it. I'm not buying any of the latest and greatest stuff, and the hardware I have picked out is pretty standard fare, nothing too fancy. So I'm pretty sure everything will "just work" (TM), but I'd still kind of like to verify each piece before I just buy everything, slap it together, install and pray.I was wondering if anyone could suggest any techniques, very good websites, or anything else to try to verify that, yes, there are indeed working drivers for my hardware.Probably the best way to verify hardware compatibility is to take one of the systems you want to get and boot a Knoppix CD or DVD on it. Since you are building from components, I am guessing that you want to know before you get the components. In that case, providing a list of prospective components to this list will probably elicit some helpful replies. I would not put a great deal of stock in hardware compatibility lists you find online. The main exception to that are the lists provided by the developers of a particular driver or package. For example, if you want to get a digital camera, I would trust the gphoto development page to have an up to date list of what cameras do and do not work in the latest release. Same with scanners and SANE, as well as lm-sensors and motherboard sensor chips. Beyond that, I'm not sure. Regards, -Roberto
"Since you are building from components, I am guessing that you want to know before you get the components."
Yes, exactly what I'm hoping to do. I can't just try running something and seeing if it works, I don't have the pieces yet. =P
I'm under the impression that just about anything low end that I could buy and put together would probably work just fine. Is that a valid assumption? Even so, I still decided to go ahead and try to verify that the parts will work, partly just to eliminate that last bit of remaining doubt, and partly just to learn how best to go about verifying hardware compatibility.
"I would not put a great deal of stock in hardware compatibility lists you find online."
Okay, thanks. I'm already glad I decided to post a question to the list. =) I was starting to get that feeling myself, but I wasn't sure.
Here's the components I'm hoping to use. If anyone could let me know what success they have or haven't had with these, please let me know.
Motherboard:GIGABYTE GA-K8N51GMF-RH Socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Processor:AMD Sempron 64 2800+ Palermo 1.6GHz 256KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor
Optical Drive:PHILIPS Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM 1.5M Cache ATAPI/E-IDE Combo Drive
Wireless Device: (Probably the thing I'm most skeptical about) Belkin Wireless Desktop Adapter (F5D7000) (It's a PCI Card) Hard Disk: (Surely not a problem, but you never know.... =) )Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
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