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SEO Portland

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From: Portland, OR

Registered: 2007-01-19

Posts: 2

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Quick question

Hi!  First time poster and about to switch over from mepis to arch.  Also, I've been waiting to break my newly built system in with a fast and stable linux distro since saving up for it back last summer.  So this is going to be a special event if all the good stuff I hear about this distro is true  8)

So my question is regarding the hardware I have and if there's any issues anyone has encountered that I should be aware of before going in

mobo & cpu:
* ABIT KN9 ULTRA Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
* AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+(65W) Windsor 2.0GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor

memory:
* A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel

drives:
*Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
* LG 2M Cache IDE Super-Multi DVD Burner

video:
* ASUS EN7600GS SILENT/HTD/256M GeForce 7600GS 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card

networking:
* LINKSYS WMP54G IEEE 802.11b/g, PCI 2.2 and 2.3 32bit PCI2.2 Wireless-G Adapter

sound:
*Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI

other stuff:
* SCEPTRE X9WG-NagaV Black 19" 8ms DVI Widescreen HD Ready LCD Monitor
*Logitech G5 Wired Laser USB Mouse
*Logitech Media Elite 102 Keys Keyboard

Thanks for looking

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KiXeR

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Registered: 2006-11-01

Posts: 8

Re: Quick question

No dude! Just go on with Arch, i hade some problems with my intergraded soundcard but wiki solved my problem .  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page

Now i'm happy archer, and man i love this distro 

/K

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Quick question

X-fi isn't supported under Linux (Creative promises to make closed source drivers available in Q2 2007).

You'd better make sure whether your wifi adapter is supported under Linux as well.

SEO Portland

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From: Portland, OR

Registered: 2007-01-19

Posts: 2

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Re: Quick question

X-fi isn't supported under Linux (Creative promises to make closed source drivers available in Q2 2007).

You'd better make sure whether your wifi adapter is supported under Linux as well.

Thanks for the feedback.  Looks like this wifi issue is pretty common and there seems to be solutions out there. 

Man that sucks about the sound card...

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wantamad

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Registered: 2007-01-18

Posts: 42

Re: Quick question

you wont be able to run seti point on your g5 mouse. it feels kinda different when you play cs:source/cs on linux.

other than that your good to go