Found a nice flash photo viewer called TiltViewer. I've put some pictures online using it here . In the right corner is a link to the website.
These days almost everything works out of the box on most hardware. Linux autodetects almost every piece of hardware and loads the modules. For someone who is used on running Linux on outdated hardware even Debian provides all that is needed...
...that's what I've been experiencing until I came across an ASUS P4P800 board with an Intel ICH5 (AC97) chipset. It's listed as: