Alejandro Lopez wrote: > The only other thing is I may need to buy a decent soundcard for > this PC. It should have a GM synth There are two supported GM synth chips: OPL4 and Emu10k1. (OPL3 is supported too but cannot do GM.) The OPL4 was used on ISA cards, so if you really want an integrated synth, your only choice is a SB Live. > A colleague has just told me that USB 2.0 is supported by the > Linux kernel starting from the latest version (2.6 I think?) only. All more or less current versions of both 2.4 and 2.6 support USB 2.0. HTH Clemens
