I'm planning on building a solid linux box for college use in a month or so and am posting my planned hardware setup and asking that if anyone sees something that might cause me many troubles, please tip me off on it.

SOYO KT600 Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 2700+
512mb Corsair Stick
Saphire Atlantis Radeon 9200SE
Soundblaster Audigy (duno which, its residing in an older machine)
Samsung ATAPI cd burner

I'm going to be running these with Slackware 9.1, thanks in advance for any warnings

"SOYO KT600 Motherboard"

You should check out the chipsets on the motherboard before you buy it. Use Google to find out if Linux supports the various chipsets so that you do not end up buying hardware that you cannot use.

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Be prepared. Create a LifeBoat CD.
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Steve Stites

Check out the hardware compatability list at http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/

You might want to ask around about using an ati video card with slackware if you want to use 3D acceleration. I think ati releases their drivers in the .rpm format only. You can probably use rpm2tgz then install them, but it would probably be a good idea to talk to someone who has done it first. Nvidias drivers come as an executable binary and were easy to install. I am quite pleased with my two year old ti4200.

Check out this thread http://www.dropline.net/forums/viewt...ght=video+card It looks like you need a 2.6.x kernel to get that 3D acceleration with that combonation of motherboard and video card.

Aight, thx for the tips