Running Linux on Intel 440LX chipset?

[petreza]

Hi,

I have an old computer that I will soon replace. It has been a old "dream" of mine to have a Linux computer running Apache as my own, personal web server. I want to know if I can run Linux on it (with video and audio). It is:

-Model: E-machines: E-tower 366is
-Motherboard: Florida-TG - manual (http://www.motherboards.org/files/manuals/125/Florida-TG.pdf)
-Chipset: Intel 440LX
-Video: ATi RAGE Pro Turbo with 4 or 8 MB SGRAM
-Audio: Crystal CS4280 with Ac97 Codec(CS4297)

What do you think?

[moorcito]

You should have no problem. The audio & video are both older hardware and thus the drivers have been around a while. I can't remember correctly, but the chipset might be kind of buggy as is, but there is an option that you can set when compiling the kernel which should fix that.

Edit: Nope, I was wrong. The chipset is fine (as far as being buggy that is). But you will need to enable the Intel AGP support in the kernel if you want to use GLX or DRI (hardware rendering).

[petreza]

Thanks!

Is there a way (distribution) to get arround compiling (I am a Linux newbee)?

(The above might be irelevent - I might just run it without graphics (or sound) - it is a web server - I have a different computer to play with the graphics mambo-jumbo.

[Cowboy Shane]

Mandrake, Suse, Redhat, or any other new user oriented distro should detect your hardware without you having to compile anything.