I have manage to salvage pc parts from friends and build myself a computer, its Pentium 3 700mhz, 384 megabytes pc133 ram, 40 gig hard disk, floppy and cd rom and usb card, video and sound are built in, can i install Linux on this pc? what worries me most is drivers for sound and video. What should i do?
2007-07-17 19:18:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Id try it out, i never had a problem with built in sound cards on Linux. The video will work but if the os doesn't detect what video driver it needs it will just use the default card settings, and it wont be the nicest looking desktop. anyhow, you should look for light versions to try out on that, mepis and xubuntu are just two of them that i can point out. they both have a demo so when you boot it up you see what hardware works and how we'll it works, then just run an install from the demo.
The Ubuntu forums is a really good spot to figure out how to fix any hardware problem that you may come across. Anyhow a light version of those two distributions should work like a charm on your hardware.
2007-07-18 13:45:29 · answer #1 · answered by Paul M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you dont strategies , why no longer basically reformat your pc? installation a clean version of linux, after which you wont quite could hardship approximately it. as nicely its a good theory to reformat everyso often anyhow.......IM me if u have a question etc.... (deathcabdriver_5005 no longer napalm fanatic, yet you may digital mail this address in case you like)
2016-10-08 23:32:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes u can. most versions of linux will find sound and video driver no prblem.
2007-07-17 19:20:58 · answer #3 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋