Hardware Compatibility

[djp4059]

I've been looking thru the hardware compatibility lists of some of the distro's, and it seems to me that alot of the hardware they say are certified or compatible, is old stuff. I dont see any of the hardware that I have, for instance, Tyan Tiger MP S2460 with dual Athlon MP processors, Gigabyte 7DXR+ with Xp2100 cpu, Nvidia Geforce cards, promise cards, and so on, does this mean that my computers wont run any of the distro's properly or otherwise? I have installed SuSE, Mandrake and Red Hat without any big problems, but when I look thru the hardware device sections they report information about the device, but that there is no module loaded for some of the them, such as the motherboard chipsets. The computers seem to run well, but I was wondering if this is going to be a problem?

[bandwidth_pig]

From my experience, you will not find files for motherboard chipsets, as those files are compiled directly into the kernel. As far as the Geforce cards, you need to download and compile the source code to install the driver for those. Linux will support dual processors. I don't think your going to have any problems. What you may want to do is a kernel recompile just so you can get a better idea of where these files are in relation to motherboard chipsets. It's a good expereince everbody should try and it really isn't very difficult.