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Corkscrew:
Are there any distros that support new hardware? I've tried linux before(Mandrake) and found that I was REALLY comrpmising on hardware functionality. Examples:

-My logitech cordless keyboard has function buttons-unprogrammable in linux

-Several joysticks don't work

-Most of my internal stuff(mb, hard drive, videocard, soundcard, & CDRW drive) aren't comaptbiile at all.

-I'ved got a TV tuner card(AIW9700 pro) that I can't use at all

-I don't have sound(SBAugiy 2 platium-no audio rack funciotnality either)

-RAID drivers unavalibile

Is this one of those cases where MS is better to run than linux? You hear all of the stories about it running on old, outdate underpowered hardware, but what about new, extremely powerful stuff?

 As well, I do a lot of audio mixing and video editing. Would linux support that? Specifically, Flash and Cubasis-type stuff, and Finale for music composition.

[ June 10, 2003: Message edited by: Corkscrew ]

Calum:
unfortunate.
it is the case that newer stuff doesn't get immediate support. the reason for this is that companies release their drivers for windows only when they bring out a new piece of kit, in linux, the drivers tend to be written and maintained purely by users. If nobody who owns a particular piece of kit has submitted a driver to the kernel maintainers yet then there won't be any support for it.

still,    
quote:Most of my internal stuff(mb, hard drive, videocard, soundcard, & CDRW drive) aren't comaptbiile at all.
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this does sound a bit odd to me, it really does, as does your RAID thing. i wonder if something more serious than just outdated drivers isn't going on here. As a matter of course i would say try red hat instead of mandrake but that's not really a solution, and mandrake shouldn't be having huge problems with hard drives etc.

as for "is it better to run MS than linux" probably not, and i will tell you why: usually if hardware is not supported, the number of people out there contributing to linux means that usually your kit will become supported pretty quickly. People used to microsoft 2-5 year schedules find this hard to believe, but often it can take maybe days, weeks or at the outside, months to support a particular piece of hardware, except where the manifacturer has deliberately crippled the product and emulated around the deficiencies in their (windows only) software.

At the risk of sounding inflammatory, there's not a lot anybody here can do for you unless you post actual details about your kit. it's all very well to say your motherboard doesn't work under linux, but unless you say what kind of motherboard, what kind of hard drive, what kind of joysticks etc, then it simply looks like you are bitching. If you were to say exactly what doesn't work then maybe somebody would give you a simple fix. who knows?

"The impossible we do today

Corkscrew:
system Specs:

MB=MSI GNB-Max FISR
HD=sorry, the drives are, I just thought they weren't
Gamepad=Nostromo n50 USB
Videocard=AIW 9700 Pro
soundcard= SBAudigy 2 Platinum
Raid drivers are windows only=Promise FastTrak IDE & SATA RAID controller(onboard controllers)
Keyboard=Logitech cordless elite duo
Mice= cordless optical trackman, cordless mousesman optical.

None of these are listed on the hardware compatib. list. Most work, but there's no way to change the config. e.g.- the soundcard has an internal rack that is unusable because it requires MS drivers.

[ June 10, 2003: Message edited by: Corkscrew ]

Faust:
Are you sure you have used the right drivers?  Some of the distros can be pretty bad at autodetection.  :rolleyes: .  The sound blaster should work with the emu10k1 module,  I had to load that myself to get my soundblaster live working.  The internal stuff (hard drives / cdrom should definitely work.)  There were a few (more than one) threads already here re:sound work on linux.  As for the rest Google is your friend for compatability checking.

ChakanTGM:
All of those things are compatible with Linux.

You may have to find and download the drivers. Maybe even compile a new kernel. But all of the things you have listed work within Linux, to my knowledge.

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