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Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
I had SuSE 7.3 on my laptop, it had a SIS 630 chipset, it found the sound but the video display only worked properly if i booted the system with a disk, i couldn't even configure it to work at the proper res unless i booted with a disk.
Anyway, i had been looking at the 8.1 release and from the hardware page it seems that 630 chip is still a bit fucked so i don't think i will go the SuSE route, instead mandrake supports it after editing some damn command line i dunno. Suppose i will know once i buy it.
HibbeeBoy:
Well, I did it. Installed on my Dell at home and it was easy peasy.
I haven't done much with it yet. A couple of problems though, didn't have a driver for my soundcard which is a TBS II Montego (Turtle Bay something) and none of the CD Players recognise the CD ROM. Do I have to mount or configure this in someway ?
Next I will try and persuade the Corporate guys to deploy Linux and get rid of M$ altogether.
[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: HibbeeBoy ]
TheQuirk:
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
The F.A.Q has alot of stuff about mounting. See /etc/fstab, the mount command, and some other one that I don't remember.. Link is in my sig!
mobrien_12:
I believe your sound card has an Aureal chipset. Aureal was developing Linux open source drivers but went bankrupt.
Others have taken up working on the drivers. You can give them a shot if you want.
Go to http://aureal.sourceforge.net
HibbeeBoy:
Thanks for the links. I did check out the links and it's a bit hit and miss if it will be supported. It does use the Aureal chipset right enough. I am prepared to install another soundcard if I have to. Hell, I'm prepared to chew my right arm off to get out of the M$ trap !
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