Support for old pci cards

[zacmario]

I was wondering how support was for old pci cards.
Specifically a TNT 2 Riva  and 1371 es sound card. It's an older machine that I'm considering switching from win 3.x to tiny core. Oh also is there an easy to use program that loads .iso and .img floppy files?

[Rich]

Hi zacmario
If Xvesa doesn't work with the video card, Xorg should be able to handle it using  xf86-video-nv.tcz.
I suspect being a Windows 3 machine RAM may be the issue. How much is installed?
 

[zacmario]

Originally, it was a windows 98 machine. I repurposed it for win 3.x it's a bit powerful for it really. As it stands, it's a Celeron 500mhz with 256mb of ram.

[Rich]

Hi zacmario
That should be adequate for some uses, though I wouldn't expect to run a modern web browser on it.
There is also a  nouveau  video driver that should support your card. The audio card is likely supported by ALSA.

[zacmario]

I don't expect to run anything demanding. Will most likely run the win 3.x games through wine. Having trouble getting sound so hoping this will work instead.
Thank you for your time and help.

[Rich]

Hi zacmario
I've never run WINE, so I don't know how resource intensive it is.

[gadget42]

...also is there an easy to use program that loads .iso and .img floppy files?

what does "load" mean for your purpose(s)?

also found this reference for your sound card:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=57373

[Rich]

Hi zacmario

... Oh also is there an easy to use program that loads .iso and .img floppy files?

If you are just looking to read the contents of an ISO:

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mkdir PickaName
sudo mount FileName.iso PickaNameYou can now access the contents through the newly created  PickaName  directory.

If you are just looking to read the contents of a  .img  file:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,24063.msg151721.html#msg151721

[zacmario]

Hi zacmario
I've never run WINE, so I don't know how resource intensive it is.

Good point, I wondered about this myself after posting.

...also is there an easy to use program that loads .iso and .img floppy files?

what does "load" mean for your purpose(s)?

also found this reference for your sound card:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=57373

As far as "load" goes I ment mount.

That link may have been the posts that drove me to buy the es 1371 card in first place.. what I didn't notice was a link in that thread that has drivers. Thanks for pointing that out.

[CNK]

WINE on a 1GHz PIII PC can run XP-era software fast enough including complex stuff like 3D modelling, so I expect win 3.x software would run fast enough on that machine. The games will probably be slow to start though because WINE has to load as well.

[zacmario]

Ok great, that's good news. I got the machine pulled out and it was working when I put it away.  Now I'm Getting all kinds of 386 related errors with win 3.x . So I'll probably install tiny on it tonight and see how it goes.

Maybe that post also gives me ambition to clean up the p3 motherboard I found in scrap pile a while back. It too has 900mhz -1ghz(can't remember) cpu