After a while I realized that I'd have to get a new version of XFree86. That wasn't easy, because you had to download it, and I didn't have the internet connection working under Linux, so I would have to download it from Windows, and move it to Linux on floppies, as you can't access the Windows FAT32 filesystem from Linux. At least not without patching and recompiling the kernel, and I didn't really feel up to that yet. As I really hadn't done any work in Linux yet, I decided to do a clean install. Modprobe immediately recognized my video card.
Sound is nice.
I didn't have the soundcard configured, and I'd been told that that was the hardest piece of hardware to get to work. Now, after fiddling a lot with sound configuration files, I didn't end up with anything but error messages. And well, as I don't like non-free software, I got rid of the commercial driver as soon as I managed to get sound to work the proper way. Another little problem I've had is with the modem. Sometimes when I tell it to dial up my ISP, it refuses to dial.