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Faust:
Yeah I guess until Logitech decides to support their keyboard under Unix systems you will either have to go for a technical solution or none at all.

Calum:
well actually the "stupid extra keys" feature has been implemented in at least two open source projects. i haven't tried either of them, they are both on sourceforge, hang on... here we go http://lineak.sourceforge.net/ is the URL for the one i downloaded, i have a compaq easy access keyboard, but have never felt the need to use those extra 8 buttons along the top, so never installed this software. Incidentally the buttons don't work in windows either unless i install some crap software that came with the keyboard (which i did not do).

Anyway, notice how many people are trying to help address the problems in this thread? my prediction is that after another couple of posts this topic will fade into the past and the original poster won't respond. No offence to corkscrew intended whatsoever, and i hope i am wrong, but usually when people start off with a "linux simply doesn't work with my computer" topic and everybody pitches in trying to help, the person who started the topic often does not acknowledge the help and the topic is forgotten.

I think it is important however to realise that firstly many (or all) of these perceived problems may well have solutions, and secondly, people in the open source/ linux community almost fall over themselves to help. If somebody is determined to continue saying linux does not support their hardware though, there isn't much anybody can do to help them no matter what they try.

again, no personal offence intended in this case to corkscrew, it was simply an observation on the tendency of this type of topic in general.

Faust:
Yeah we've all seen it before.  Still I would rather offer help just for the one that takes it rather than not help at all for the ten that don't and ignore the intelligent ones at the same time.  Although stuff like "linux doesn't work with my hard drive / motherboard" does make it difficult to take the poster seriously.

preacher:
This is to help you with the Ati 9700 tv out problem. Try here http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/
as well as here.
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/

Next up is RAID. RAID is not new, and since it is used mostly on servers, linux has supported it for quite a while.

Your mb, hard drive, videocard, soundcard, & CDRW drive are compatible. Ive never had trouble with any of the hardware you listed. Since you obviously just inserted the linux disc and didnt actually try using it, I must say that you are quite ignorant in your knowledge of the subject, so this post is pretty much a waste.

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