On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:14 PM, { K I R A N } wrote:
> Sure Shishir
> If the recent development and release is going then it should work.
> But my friend was fade-up with the problem...
> Thats why I mentioned here..
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> I will suggest about it.
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Dual boot, wait and see :)
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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> Dai, for Creative Sound Blaster, if i read it right in the Slashdot
> there is a beta release of the driver, and since Dell is selling
> hardware based on X3100 and Blaster Audigy HD, i think there should
> be some work around to get it working. I might be wrong but, do give
> it a try.
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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:02 PM, { K I R A N } <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> Yes, you are right Shishir,
> Some hardware company make the devices only for Windows, like as you
> mentioned winmodem, and wintvtunner. And another difficulty is
> really lack of driver support, for example one of my colleagues want
> to use ubuntu and he has Creative Sound Blaster Audigy HD sound
> card. He tried so much options but could not get the solution. One
> of my friend want to use the full feature of his display card Intel
> Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 , but he can use only vesa driver
> for this device and with this driver he can not use smooth compiz
> efficts...
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> I am also trying to use my tvtunner in ubuntu.. but could not get
> the solution. My Sound driver is working good in sound out but it
> misbehave while I try to use as sound record/capture..
>
> These all things make users difficult to switch or use Linux as
> their first choice OS.
>
> How can we find the solution for these issues? If we can suggest one
> click solution to those users then Linux will be more popular.
>
> Himali
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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> One of the biggest hindrance towards adoption of Linux has always
> been that all the system hardware is not supported by the kernel. I
> don't know how true this statement is in today's context. Modern
> distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, etc have an exceptional hardware
> support and it is evident from the fact that almost all of the
> machines today function out of the box. However, as Jwalanta
> rightfully said in twitter, its a pain in Windows, specially when
> you dont have your driver CD by your side for rescue. If just in
> case you dont have the CD, wow, you got to find the right hardware
> first, then scour the internet for the drivers and finally download
> then, which at times is more than few hundred MBs. Finally, after
> finding all the drivers (i.e., if your NIC or Modem works without
> the drivers), it will take a good part of an hour and good number of
> restarts before all your hardware drivers are installed and ready
> for use. And people say its still difficult to run, use Linux. :)
>
> I agree to the fact that there are still many shortcomings in number
> and type of hardware supported by Linux (winmodem being the most
> crucial one), we have to admit the fact that, Linux does support
> more hardware than Windows does when it comes to 'out of the box'
> manner. So, though Linux still has some quirks as far as support
> and availability off the shelf drivers are concerned, I think its
> better than M$ in almost every respect and I personally love it for
> what it is.
>
> Godspeed Linux, OSS and its derivatives.
>
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> Shishir Jha
> EPC 1970,GPO 8975,
> KTM,NEPAL
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> Shishir Jha
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