Hi Robert, In a previous post which hasn't been forwarded yet as of this moment, I noted that so far NONE of the distros I've tried have recognized my sound card. This is odd, because when Ubuntu 6.10 first came out I installed it on my laptop and the sound worked fine. At that time I wasn't dual booting. Now I've loaded Ubuntu 7.10 assuming that all would be well, but I have no sound. Strange that a previous distro would have the needed driver, but the new one doesn't. So far I've tried the latest version of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, openSUSE, MEPIS, PCLinuxOS, and Freespire, and none of them recognize my sound card! I know that the sound card is ok, because when I boot to Vista I have sound.
If I can't get this figured out I'm going to turn my laptop back into Windows-only machine. Internet surfing and multi-media are my two primary focuses on a computer, and with Linux the latter has been a no go, so far. ~Sean --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > kazman1914 wrote: > > > I don't mind struggling with limited functionality as I progress > > along the learning curve, but I want SOME functionality! So far the > > sole distro that I've had success with is Ubuntu with the Gnome > > desktop, and so that's where I'm going to stay, for now. > > > > That was exactly the strategy I pursued when I first started using > Linux back in the 1990's, when it was only a few years old (Red Hat > v.7). Although I am now more focused on OpenBSD (I run servers), I do > still use Red Hat Enterprise 3 on my main Desktop machine (on which I > am typing this). > > Being more focused on the technical side of computing than the > entertainment side, my idea of 'functionality' has more to do with the > compilers, shells and scripting engines, and packet filtering devices, > than with advanced browsing features... but I *did* stumble across a > Linux distro that you might find interesting, if you plan on doing any > more distro-sampling in the near future. > > Someone on this list recently mentioned 'Vector Linux 5.9 Gold' (aka > Slackware 12), and heaped a lot of praise on it, as a decent OOTB (out > of the box) distro, so I burned a CD, and installed it to see what the > deal was, and it ran extremely well on my older (dual PII 850) MSI > 694D (IIRC) machine, with 1.2 Gig RAM and an old ATI graphics card of > the same vintage (@ 2000). > > One of the things about Linux worth mentioning (if no-one has yet > mentioned it to you) is that a lot of hardware developers are > unwilling to either develop Linux drivers for their hardware, or to > share the details of their hardware's API (Applications Programming > Interface) with Linux (Open Source) Developers. > > What this means in practical End User terms, is that newer hardware > may not be supported (have drivers), because no-one in the *nix > Development community has yet wanted to tackle the project of > reverse-engineering the drivers for that particular piece of hardware. > > > > -- > -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ > http://robertwittig.net/ > http://robertwittig.org/ > . > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
