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Linux on my workstation

Type: IBM PC
Processor type: Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred B
Motherboard: Abit NF7-S rev 2.0

Purchased: February, 2003

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Short hardware specs

cpu
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Thouroughbred B
chipset
nvidia nForce2 400
memory
1024 Mb DDR2700 (2 different dimms)
display card
ATi Radeon 9500 Pro (RV300) 128Mb VRAM
screen
17" Samsung SyncMaster 757MB
storage
80 Gb Western Digital 7200rpm hard drive (WD800JB with 8Mb cache)
DVD drive
Toshiba DVD-rom SD-M1712
with custom firmware. these drives are ridiculously capped to make it harder to rip DVDs.
CD burner
Plextor PX-W1210A
network
Integrated nForce2 10/100 ethernet controller
Sound
Integrated nForce2 MCP-T soundstorm.

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Ethernet network

Integrated ethernet controller is a modified realtek chip. Linux support is currently based on reverse engineered documentation written by Carl-Daniel Hailfinger and Andrew de Quincey. It is not endorsed or in any way supported by NVidia Corp. The driver is called forcedeth and distributed along with the mainstream 2.6 kernel, thus making it GPL.

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Sound device

Stored in the documentation / alsa section.