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Last time I checked Linux does not support mysticism. j/k Magic Module? I dont think I've ever heard of it. Got some more information on your Magic Module?

To put it more clearly YES linux will definately work. I don't think Western Digital changed the IDE interface any time recently. :-) Squeaks head is safe. *whew*

Knoppix is good for doing the down and dirty stuff. You might consider a Suse Live eval cd just to see how well a 'general' linux distro will run on your machine. I'm sure the tools mentioned previously are probably also available from the suse disks. http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/suse_linux/index.html(live eval is about 2/3 of the way down the page.)

I'm by no means some linux master but I do know a thing or two. Your going to have to mount the floppy drive in order to get access to the disk and copy the files over that you need. Linux since 7.3 or earlier I believe automatically mounts disks for you. You'll need to go to /mnt/floppy and copy the files to some place you can work with them. If they are rpm's you should be able to install them straight from the disk. If they are .tgz .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 then you'll need to move them to the hard drive and uncompress them. You should be able to follow the instructions on your hardware vendors web site. Hopefully that helps. If you need help with any of the simpler operations of linux you can always check out a good site like http://www.linuxnovice.org/. I felt I was fairly proficient but still had some questions and they cleared those all up pretty quickly. One last thing. You might consider going to a newer version of linux if you can. Redhat 8 and 9 seem to have a made a big jump in the detection and support of hardware. I'm running a fairly new NForce2 based motherboard and Redhat 9 detects and runs everything properly(with the exception of my serial ATA controller, but that's trivial). Good luck!

If you use Wine with the opengl functionality you can play Counter Strike online with out a problem. WineX gives back to Wine but they apparently dont take from it. I've played original half-life, CS and Day of Defeat under Wine(GL version) and had no issues. http://wine.dataparty.no/ grab the latest gl build.

FYI: After getting Nvidia drivers in place all you should have to do is copy your pk0 file to the quake3 game directory. That is the only step besides running the installer that should be neccesary. There isn't really an opertunity to screw anything up with the install.

Having played with both Wine and WineX and many games under both of them I have a little bit to tell on the subject. WineX is a heck of a lot easier to use. Most of the time you dont even have to touch a config. It's just install the rpm and go. Wine on the other hand requires you to setup your config's and your directory paths(unless they've changed it in the last 3 months). WineX also costs $5 a month. If you've got the patience and the know how you can get by with most games using the GL capable version of Wine. I personally have played Half-Life, Counter Strike, Day of Defeat, SW Jedi Knight 2:Jedi Outcast, and a couple other games I dont recall, under Wine. All the games listed ran full screen with no bugs and full graphics. They all ran solid. It all depends on what your comfortable with and what your looking to play.

Plays suprisingly well through a tightvnc connection...incase some one at work wants to play off there home machine. ;-)

Well it appears your issue is in your last 'input device' section. Shows it's trying to load for a PS/2 mouse instead of your USB mouse. As to the acctual know how to fix that type of an issue I wouldn't know. May be see if you can hunt down some config files and change them to point to USB. Any one else know where this can be changed/fixed!?