>  - is there a Debian hardware compatibility list on web to
> check on which the Debian distribution has been tested?

No, because Debian does not impose hardware restrictions beyond
those of the linux kernel itself.

Check out the Hardware-HOWTO at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html

> Having no experience with Debian (not yet owning one either)
> and after failing to find such a list at debian.org

Look at the installation manual:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install

> I get
> the impression that Debian installers have to look at
> various other sites - the idea behind Debian seems to be
> completely different from the one of SuSe?

:)

> I would like to move over to Deb2.2 but I have no idea if my
> Diamond soundcard V90 would work.

You might also want to check out
http://www.alsa-project.org/

for an alternative to the kernel sound drivers.

HTH

Christian

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