Intel® Celeron® Processor 1.70GHz
System Board-MSI™ MS-6533G-L
SpecTek 384MB DDR266 SDRAM 184-pin DIMM
3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
40GB Western
LiteOn 52X CD-ROM Drive
Video-Integrated SiS650 Chipset with Ultra-AGPII Technology
Sound-Integrated AC'97 Audio CODEC
Modem-56K PCI Modem MDP 7800
LAN-Integrated 10/100 Ethernet Adapter

No problems installing RH7.3-8.0-9.0. Runs great. Don't play many games, so integrated sound and video work fine. Will eventually upgrade them. Have dsl, haven't tried the modem.(no need).
Runs and works alot better than xp. Dual boot until I can get my daughter to use and be comfortable with RH.

AthlonXP 2000+
Asus A7N266-VM - nForce mobo
512MB DDR Crucial RAM
80GB Maxtor Diamondmax
nForce Audio
nForce LAN
nForce Geforce 2 MX
SiS 900 NIC installed to make life easier.

Major issues on any distro due to nForce chipset and major lack of compatability.

NS

Hey, hey.....anyone had mandrake 9.1 freeze their machine up during installation?...........i opted to completely wipe my HD and start off with linux RIGHT........but while everything was going peachy walking through the install steps, after performing installation from 1st disk it didn't prompt me for 2nd--it just popped the cd drawer open and froze the machine.........i guess it could just be a corrupt segment on the disk??.......

i read someone else's post saying that their asus A7S333 motherboard didn't have any problems, even though it's not on the mandrake list.....? i guess it seems more like a disk prob, but i got it right from mandrakesoft......maybe i went throught the partitioning section of the easy-install wrong?.....any clues for a hapless gnubie???? Thanks!

used to use mandrake however I haven't recently so I couldn't give much useful advice about the install. However you could always take the easy way out and try another distro (such as slackware ?? hehe).

Or, if there's no way you're giving up Mandrake then you could always put your hard drive into a buddy's pc, boot it up and install mandrake then move the hard drive back over to your machine and boot up with the new fresh install. The only downside to this is you may have to configure your sound card, network card, etc. However that shouldn't be difficult.

gnumonics, my A7S333 didn't have any problems with the installation, but it did freeze on first re-boot after the installation, in the startup procedure after 'checking module dependencies'. I eventually worked out that I needed to select acpi to off and 'force noapic' in the bootloader section of the installation just near the end. After that, it worked without fault. I got the info for a successful installation here:

http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/install.html

Particularly make sure you have PnP OS set to 'No' in the BIOS.

There was one thing that didn't (and still doesn't) work: when the installation gives you the screen where you can press 'F1 for Options' or 'Enter to install', pressing F1 was guaranteed to hang up the machine. So I could only just launch into the installation; luckily, I didn't need to pass any kernel options at that stage.

[Discoesque]
Dell Dimension XPS T600
P3-600Mhz
384 MB RAM
10GB/4GB HDD
Type 1 (NO REGION!) DVD ROM
52X CD ROM
C-Cube Microsystems Cinemaster C 3.0 DVD Decoder (rev 01) <-DOES NOT WORK
Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2 Soundcard <- BIG pain to install, not autosupported in RH8.
Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture Card <- Autosupported in RH8.
US Robotics/3Com WinModem <- DOES NOT WORK
3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] <- Autosupported.
nVidia Corporation NV5 [Riva TnT2] <- Easy enough to install the nVidia drivers.
VLSI Vision Ltd. CPiA WebCam <- Autosupported.

My other four machines are currently running WindowsXP, because my family is adamant that they will not switch OS's. It'll be too bad that day they just man, sorry, they just downloaded a virus. Pity, that, but it wiped their whole OS....

I have a tricked out Sparc 20 laying around here. You can have it if you want it. I've never used it.

Decided to get a new one, but I was too lazy to build my own , so I bought a ready-made one:

Dell Precision 360
Pentium 4 3.2ghz
875P motherboard (Dell's version)
1GB DDR400 RAM
40GB Maxtor DiamondMax 8 hard drive
16X Samsung DVD-ROM
nVidia Quadro NVS 280 w/ 64MB (unknown OEM version)
15" Dell UltraSharp 1504FP LCD
(Built in sound)
Harmon Kardon 395 speakers
(Built in ethernet)
Dell QuietKey keyboard
Logitech wheel mouse

I didn't get this with Linux installed (yes, it's possible), because I already had a copy of Red Hat Linux 9 Professional. After getting the system I wiped the hard disk and installed RH9. Ethernet detected okay. Sound wasn't detected, but after installing the alsa rpm's from freshrpms.net the sound worked fine. nVidia's video driver worked fine. I can play Return to Castle Wolfenstein with 640x480x32bpp. Xine worked fine after installing it and its dependencies. Essentially, it was all too easy.


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How tricked out is tricked out? I've got TK sending me an SS10 and an SS20 as soon as he gets back to Texas, then I'm also bringing home an SGI Indy and a Duallie P3 2U from California... I might have more hardware on my plate then I could handle, but hey... what're the specs on that guy?

Cheers,

Finegan

If the CDrom froze the machine just opening the drawer it sounds a little different... hmm, Mandrake's HCL is also pretty worthless, as are most of the vendors lists in general.

It may be the old UDMA + cable select issue, if you want to crack the crate and put your drives in classic, master+slave that may take care of it, or on boot, use the command line to off it:

ide1=nodma

The install will be dog slow, but it'll read off of the CD in the most paranoid pokey way.

Or... you can go through the install and right when it asks you for disk 2, switch to a virtual terminal with: CTRL+ALT+F2 and then type:

tail -f /var/log/messages

And see what the error message is when the machine locks...

Hopefully it'll give you one.

Cheers,

Finegan

You'll have to excuse me if these are fairly vague answers, but I've never used the system.... meaning I have never booted it, per se.

I have no Sun-Type monitor and no type 5 keyboard/mouse. I have plugged it in before and turned it on, and it appears to power up (power supply fan spins, lights come on, yadda yadda). I have no way to check and see if the rest does what it supposed to do.

Since I have never booted it, I can't really give you detailed specs. I know it has the ROSS HyperSparc cpu module, dual video cards, dual NIC cards, onboard sound, external SCSI (I believe it to be SCSI 2(Narrow), unless, I'm mistaken). One GB HDD, Floppy, and no CD ROM.

Sorry I'm a bit vauge, but I inherited the machine myself and didn't get any documentation on it, and little description. I didn't get enough hardware to run it, so I packed it into the corner and left it there.

Well' Ive only used SuSE8.0 on my old P3 450mhz, and Knoppix 3.2 on my new P4 2.4ghz machine. I've just ordered a new system (so I can have a beast of a linux box), specs:

AMD®_ Athlon XP 2600+/333Mhz Thoroughbred (2167Ghz) (Boxed
MSI K7N2 Delta-L NFORCE 2 AMD® Athlon™/ Athlon™ XP / Duron™
DDR400 256Mb PC3200 400Mhz
MSI GF4 MX440SE 64Mb
Western Digital Caviar ® SE 40.0Gb 7200RPM + 8MB Buffer
MSI StarSpeed 52X IDE CD-ROM (MS-8152 / C52)
KME CX-6059 MIDDLE Tower ATX chassis
COOLER MASTER SAF-S82 8CM Chassis Fan + Sensor
ENERMAX EG301P-VE(FMA) 300W ATX PSU

I've read a few posts saying my Motherboard/sound wouldn't work with my distro (Redhay 9.0) and I've searched google, but all I can deduce is that some ppl argue that it flatly isn't supported, and some people say it's fine. I looked on the Redhat website and they say that it's supposed to be supported.

Im getting this machine early next week and i'm worried I'll have to turn it into a second XP box

Just bought/built a new computer

Here's the specs:
AMD Athlon xp 2600+
ASUS a7v8x-deluxe
ASUS GeForce4 ti4200 128MB
2x 512MB Kingston memory
WD 80GB 8MB(cache)
LG dvd-drive

Just installed Mandrake 9.1 on it. Didn't play with it a lot yet but I didn't have one problem. Except one thing during the install. I had to do the install with the option "vga=0" because of a bug with the installer when the system has >=1GB of memory and a video card with 128MB of memory. Because of this, the installation was very ugly. After the install the graphics were OK.

Cheers,
Spy5600

SUSE 8.2 1 week old install on a Laptop:

Toshiba Satellite 1800-s100 (Canadian Model)

Working Hardware:

MOBO: Toshiba proprietary with Trident/ALI M1632M Northbridge
Proc: 800 Mhz Celeron Coppermine
RAM: 248 MB (Samsung Chips I believe)
HD: Toshiba MK4019GAX (40 GIG) - Internal
Toshiba MK1517GAP (15 GIG) - External through "Dynalitto"
enclosure
Display: Trident Cyberblade Ai1 8MB Integrated (thus 248 MB of RAM)
Sound: Ali 5451 PCI
Cardbus Controller: 2-Toshiba TOPIC95
CD-ROM: Toshiba 24X CD224E-BA
USB: NEC USB 2.0 Cardbus (2 ports)
Toshiba USB 1.1 (Ali Chipset) (2 ports - Integrated)
Ethernet: Integrated Intel 8255x-based
Linsys USB LAN
Modem: External 56K US Robotics
Mouse: Microsoft (it was cheap no flaming) Wheel Mouse Optical

No problems with initial install....it set up my hardware far better then Mandrake 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2 beta which never got the sound card right. I have not added APM support into the Kernel though, because the laptop is never used without an AC adapter (the battery is toast and I don't have access to another at the moment). So far SUSE 8.2 is my favourite Distro by far.

NOT Working:
Modem: Toshiba AMR Software Modem which is Lucent Scorpio
Chipset (Winmodem...good luck with that eh?)
External CD-Burner: Microsolutions 32x Back Pack - recognized in
YAST2, doubtful if there is a driver, I haven't even tried yet.