Well, I think i'm finally ready for the full jump to linux. I've been running a linux file/print server for months now. And I'm thinking of making the jump on my main pc. I've been slowly finding replacment programs for all my windows programs and I think I finally ready.

What I'm thinking of doing is adding a second harddrive to my WinXP box and installing Mandrake.

My question is now if all my hardware will be 100% supported

Duron 700@1000
Abit KT7-raid
512Mb PC133 ram
Geforce2MX 32mb AGP (Primary)
Matrox PCI (Secondary)
40Gb Hardrive with WinXP installed(connected to raid controler)
20Gb to be installed to put mandrake (not sure if I should put it on the raid or not)
Creative Sound blater live value
Teac 24/40/10 CD-RW
Basic Floppy drive
Realtek NIC
Epson colour 880 inkjet printer, with USB connection
Palm m500, with USB cradle

and I also have a Canon PowerShot A20 camera that connects throught USB, but its not 100% nessessary.

I have the same mobo - so there's no problem, you just need to upgrade High Point bios it is flucky by default, I am running Athlon on it so there is no problem at all, RAM is off question unless it is faulty, GeForce2MX card is supported with NVIDIA drivers avaiable for linux you get 3D hardware acceleration, so the drives - I ran mirror stripping raid on my rig for a couple of months till I tradedmy Maxtors drives for another 17" monitor, zip drive, UMAX Astra 1220S scanner; sound card is supported with emu10k1 module, CD-R/RW is a bliss to setup using scsi emulation (though I never had a TEAC drive, my Ricoh produced one coster during its life in linux world, unfortunately it is dead now gathering dust in the closet), floppy is off the question, Realtek NIC is supported. Now comes a dark side for me - I am no fan of USB, so there's somebody else has an answer for you, as for Palm there are apps available for linux to sync'ing it.

YA the things that worry me the most are the USB stuff and the dual monitor setup

I've got a HP printer, HP scanner, MS sidewinder joystick and webcam all on usb and all working fine.
http://www.linux-usb.org/

The canon powershot is supported under gphoto, which is part of Mandy, but an option, so make sure to add it.

Getting Xinerama (both monitors to work) may be a hastle, post back here if you get stuck. I did it this weekend, took an hour or so; it would be nice to hear how Mandy's HW-configurator handles it.

I, also, have the very same board... an old regular here drjimstuckinwin did too, uber-popular, fun board.

Between Aussie, neo77777, and I was that everything?

Cheers,

Finegan

Yeah, I guess we covered this one, so don't hesitate - pop your Mandy CD in and ::POOF::

This is what I know so far,

As far as internal hardware does everything *should* be ok. I check mandrakes site and it seems that my printer will work.

Now my last problem is with my Palm m500 with USB cradle. I'm getting mixed info from the net. Some sites say its imposible (because of USB crable) some say it has limited support and others say it should work fine (but they may be using serial cable).

Does anyone have a Palm m5xx PDA working on thier system with a USB cradle?
Or know where I can get the latest info on what is the support status of all the palms?

Almost everything I'm reading about this is coming from the lkml, which makes it kernel related...

All of the posts about oopses and hangs when using the USB cradle and the m500 are nearly 1 year old... that's 4 kernels ago. You should probably be fine.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thats what I was think, that it has been fixed, but I guess if it hasn't i'll still have windows for it :-(

Well time to download. :-)

My Robocam install on 2k was a complete disaster. Whenever it got to the point of a missing file and asking for the CD, I let it load it and B_S_O_D EVERY fricking time. Even downloading the w2k driver doesn't help. The same file is still missing.

Ironically, there's no prob with Linux USB support, FWIW.