On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:41:18 +0800 "NuTTeR -- Not Entered --" uknutter@graffiti.net wrote:
If your bying new hardware you shouldnt need to set IRQ's, DMA's or ioports's. Most pci and agp cards self configure so unless you still have a isa card youll be fine. Debian's a good distro but Mandrake is your easy as hell to install if you want the easyer then windows 98 install path.
I would be very surprised if a new PC contained any ISA cards so IRQs etc probably won't be a problem.
Unless things have changed since I installed it Debian woody doesn't do graphics chip detection when setting up XFree86 so it will be useful to know what chipset your graphics card uses and also what the maximum permitted H & V sync rates are for the monitor you are using.
If you want to re-compile your kernel to make it leaner then you will also want to know which motherboard chipset you have.
Steve.