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Calum:
i don't know anything about it, but the sound card system may be a little different than usual if your card is supported by ALSA. This is a driver set for many popular soundcards which generally works better than the sound drivers in the kernel (or so i understand it). If your card is supported by ALSA, mandrake uses ALSA, other distros do not.

Now that's no help on its own but this info may be useful to anybody else who might be chiming in with their experiences or comments.

I haven't really tried mandrake 9.1 since i wasn't really happy with 9.0 but so far 9.1 has autodetected all my stuff fine, which is of course not the same as your stuff. Listen did you have all that stuff plugged in during the installation by the way? even if not, mandrake's "harddrake" (analogous to kudzu in red hat) should be ok at picking up things like keyboard and mouse etc.

I am confused about 2 things though. If your motherboard is not supported, then how do you know any of the other stuff is not working? i would imagine that if the motherboard doesn't work, you wouldn't be able to install mandrake at all. also, if your mouse and keyboard are not working, how would you know there was no way to change the config? for example, you should be able to change the configuration of your mouse and keyboard in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (yes it's still XFConfig-4 in mdk or so i believe) as well as certain settings for your video card and monitor, this config file can be edited in a virtual terminal (press ctrl-alt-f* where * is a number from 1 to 6 to get one, then press ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to the gui) using your keyboard, if it works at all.

emh:
I'm curious which version of Mandrake you've tried.  I'm thinking, from the problems you describe, you're trying an outdated version.  If the version you're trying is earlier than 8.2, try a newer version.

Faust:
I think he was talking about the programmable keys on the keyboard (you know those annoying little soft things you use to open up IE or Outlook / change volume etcetera.)  I never use them personally, but If you do use them you may be able to get them to work with some techy stuff.  Unfortunately those "non standard" type keys are going to be difficult to get to work.  (Sorry.)  I do know that you can rig up the windows key to start up the BSOD screensaver though.   :D

And Calum is right - if your motherboard isnt detected by Linux you wouldnt be running.  Are you talking about some specific feature on the motherboard, like temperature detection?

Faust:
How could you be running at all if your hard drives / video card werent working?  Surely it would have been impossiblew to boot / see things?  For the hard drives are you talking about filesystems maybe?

Fett101:
Logitech keyboard, eh?

Perhaps this

Or this

This one looks far easier then the above

[ June 12, 2003: Message edited by: fett101 ]

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