[Techtalk] firewire info needed fairly quickly " HELLLLP!, please"

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 01:22, jfweber at bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> So I'm looking for some wisdom, I guess .. and in this case I need an
> answer quickly , so  abiding by the new rules , any boychix that have a
> suggestion , please send me a private email , or if there isn't an
> answer by 5pm EST ( US) may I express the wish that they not be in
> violation ( nor me either) if they do jump in ?

Um. 
1. There aren't any new rules yet.
2. The current thought is 'try to figure out whether the questioner
needs an answer fast, or needs support/confidence, and answer or
not-answer appropriately'. You need an answer fast. :)

> I'm hoping there might be some  more general hardware discussion in
> this  whole thing  as well.
> what about video cards I have nvidia tnt riva2 ( or tnt2 ) It's not
> here so I can't check this stuff ) it only has 32 megs ram on it. And
> although it's not a gamer box I do need framerates as high as posible
> and  3-d capability. But I don't want it choking either. I'm not looking
> to watch (dvd) movies on it. just make some... <G>  

For both hardware questions:
Redhat maintains a 'this hardware is linux-compatible' webpage on their
site. One of our chix used to be responsible for that page, I think. (I
may have this confused.)

Ah. http://hardware.redhat.com/ - but it's very easy to find from the
main page. Go to 'support and docs' from the top menubar; then to
'hardware compatibility' in the box of links at the top left.




Jenn V.
-- 
    "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture 
        	you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer.

jenn at anthill.echidna.id.au     http://anthill.echidna.id.au/~jenn/