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  1. Re:they sort of exist by RiverTonic · · Score: 4, Informative · on Online Repository for Hardware Configurations?

    I think it is this site. It has a fast search engine so it's only a matter of seconds to check if something is supported.

  2. Re:The Big Deal by bill.sheehan · · Score: 1 · on Spindl3top Introduces Latest "Super" Blackbird
    I'm sorry, Matt, but I just don't buy it (and didn't). Lists of hardware that works well with free software are all over the place. There's LinuxHardware.net, The Linux Hardware Database on ZDNet, and the hardware databases provided by each major distribution. Here is SuSE's and RedHat's.

    There's even a place in the same city as Spindletop where I usually buy my hardware. PCs for Everyone checks out each component for Linux support.

    The price I pay over cost is a contribution to what seems like a superfluous project. I just don't see the added value.

    All of which is not to say that I would turn the dogs on the UPS driver if he showed up at the door with one...

    As long as I'm wishing, I might as well wish for a pony...

  3. Older S3Virges by rwa2 · · Score: 2 · on Problems when Closing XFree86 Using a S3Virge/Gx
    You might want to search through http://www.linuxhardware.net/ to see what other S3Virge owners have had so say. There have always been problems with console corruption with these cards, and I've heard of people using everything from setfont to SVGATextmode to cope.

    As for me, I have a plain old S3V (86C325) card that isn't even VESA 2.0 compliant, so using a framebuffer console is kind of out of the question for me. On the other hand, it's the only card I have that can drive this big old fixed-frequency monitor that my roommate found. I haven't figured out how to set the video timings for the console, so I only use it for X. I've found that newer X servers greatly reduce the likelihood of console corruption, though, so perhaps your best recourse is just waiting for the next version...

  4. Hardware experiences running Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Linux Hardware Databases Merge

    another one: linuxhardware.net

  5. Leaving out linuxhardware.net? by Cardinal · · Score: 1 · on Linux Hardware Databases Merge

    Granted it focuses on being a knowledge base rather than a strict database, but I thought it deserved a mention.