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by **galleysa** » Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:14:22

I am getting ready to go from Windows ME to Linux, probably SuSe, maybe Red
Hat. Looking at my hardware, a Sony Vaio PCV-RX270DS, according to "My
Computer" -> "Properties" -> "Device Manager", here's how it's going to
fare:

Disk Devices:
"PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-115R"
"SONY CD-RW CRX140E"
"GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE 47"
"GENERIC NEC FLOPPY DISK"
None of these explicitly say they are supported by SuSe or Red Hat. The
word "GENERIC" is encouraging, as is IDE. I'm not sure what to think
about
these 4 devices.

"IOMEGA ZIP 100"
SuSe says it "partially" supports my external USB Iomega Zip 100, which
means
it only supports it so long as you don't want to do any I/O on it. I'll
probably have
to get a new, supported zip drive, probably a parallel port 100 M drive.
Red Hat says nothing supporting USB Zips, but it does support some of
the
parallel port devices.
"NVIDIA GeForce2 MX (Sony)"
SuSe supports "GeForce2 MX 100/200" and "GeForce MX/MX 400". Close
enough?
Red Hat definitely supports this.
"Intel PC Camera Pro" (a USB video cam)
Can't find this under SuSe or Red Hat, will probably kiss it goodbye.
"Realtek RTL8139(A/B/C/8130) PCI Fast Ethernet NIC"
SuSe says it can handle this, so can Red Hat.
Printer: Epson Stylus 440
SuSe says it can handle this. Red Hat only supports the Stylus 800.
"YAMAHA AC-XG Audio Device" (sound card)
SuSe doesn't say it supports this, neither does Red Hat.

Floppy, Keyboard and Mouse are all listed as "Standard"
Assume they won't be problems.

Anybody got comments about anything I should worry about / advice about how
to cope?

by **anc** » Sun, 14 Jul 2002 03:12:43

> I am getting ready to go from Windows ME to Linux, probably SuSe, maybe
> Red
> Hat. Looking at my hardware, a Sony Vaio PCV-RX270DS, according to "My
> Computer" -> "Properties" -> "Device Manager", here's how it's going to
> fare:

> Disk Devices:
> "PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-115R"
> "SONY CD-RW CRX140E"
> "GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE 47"
> "GENERIC NEC FLOPPY DISK"
> None of these explicitly say they are supported by SuSe or Red Hat.
> The
> word "GENERIC" is encouraging, as is IDE. I'm not sure what to think
> about
> these 4 devices.

> "IOMEGA ZIP 100"
> SuSe says it "partially" supports my external USB Iomega Zip 100,
> which
> means
> it only supports it so long as you don't want to do any I/O on it.
> I'll
> probably have
> to get a new, supported zip drive, probably a parallel port 100 M
> drive. Red Hat says nothing supporting USB Zips, but it does support
> some of
> the
> parallel port devices.
> "NVIDIA GeForce2 MX (Sony)"
> SuSe supports "GeForce2 MX 100/200" and "GeForce MX/MX 400". Close
> enough?
> Red Hat definitely supports this.
> "Intel PC Camera Pro" (a USB video cam)
> Can't find this under SuSe or Red Hat, will probably kiss it goodbye.
> "Realtek RTL8139(A/B/C/8130) PCI Fast Ethernet NIC"
> SuSe says it can handle this, so can Red Hat.
> Printer: Epson Stylus 440
> SuSe says it can handle this. Red Hat only supports the Stylus 800.
> "YAMAHA AC-XG Audio Device" (sound card)
> SuSe doesn't say it supports this, neither does Red Hat.

> Floppy, Keyboard and Mouse are all listed as "Standard"
> Assume they won't be problems.

> Anybody got comments about anything I should worry about / advice about
> how to cope?

As a SuSe7.2 user I would say try SuSe. It will recognise your hard drive
and CD and graphics, sound may be a problem but there is a sound hack in
SuSe Yast for Sony Vaio computers. With version 8 you will get the fast new
KDE 3 desktop and can choose the Reiser FS.

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