On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Ankur Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:14 PM, { K I R A N } wrote:
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> 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 :)
Not a solution.
Digg more and more ;)
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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Shishir Jha
>>>> EPC 1970,GPO 8975,
>>>> KTM,NEPAL
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>> --
>> Shishir Jha
>> EPC 1970,GPO 8975,
>> KTM,NEPAL
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