On Friday 15 December 2006 21:12, Rony wrote:
U think Acer tech cant read or use google? Instead why not buy acer's / equviv chinese stuff install debian and sell. It might require some effort initially but subsequent installs are a breeze.
Acer! it is a big pain in the ass (roni very well knows why I say this). any ways why blaim linux for this? it it were windows it is ok to blaim because they have taken the control and if some thing is wront it is only m$'s falt. but linux means freedom so if you feel some thing is needed you can do any of the 3 things 1. if you are a good programmer, hack the kernel and write some thing new. 2. if you are not and still want it, hire a person to do it (like me) *smile* 3. search the web with some patience and you will find the result is positive. any ways I am having a lot of problems with acer and it is some thing to do with display itself. I am doing a mass installation for a gnu/linux awareness campain with a workshop these days.
Regarding sound u have not installed some module or lib. Eg if u use alsa u need esd-alsa for using several progs that use esd libs. Selecting one may not neccessarily select the other.
quite possible, I think I had worked around this problem some time back in a similar fassion. it was fedora core 4 with this problem on some IBM laptop.
Strange how i never have a problem with any hardware (except trashy closed video drivers).
strange indeed. even I never face other problems except display related once but it is frustrating never the less. as a note to bring this thread back on track, today I had extencive discussions with a lady related to media who herself will be turning her office computers totally into gnu/linux. she told me about 5 real stories which are very sad and will surely make people like me and jtd furious with anger. the moral was that "linux is an absolutely stupid system and the concept of free software is either fake or senceless or both." the people who were asked by some IT experts to go for gnu/linux for their organisations with the view of reducing cost and increasing quality just refused the idea saying "we can't put our data on stake for some stupid student from some college who thinks that he will bring the all mighty bil gates on the flore." they all claimed that linux is just a study tool and a "insect " to cause irritation and is born out of jullecy against the greatest man ever in the computer world, Bil gaits. I am putting these thoughts exactly as they have come to me.. there is one NGO which runs 17 schools in India. when they were asked to evaluate gnu/linux the response was "oh we can't gamble with our security, linux is so un standard and has no question of ever becoming a usable program let alone a stable system. don't give us an advice like an over inthuziastic student who just wants to prove that he is different." the general response was linux is just a toy os and is the most dirty thing to have on computer. if microsoft is doing such a good service to you why should one damage their computers with some unstable untested and non-standard software which microsoft has warned not to use? if any of you want to know the person who told me this sad story then contact me off the list. but when saying all this she was equally concerned and disappointed about it just like I was. for a monent I thought to myself "what an irony, the biggest spyware on a computer called windows is itself the most non-standard OS and look who is talking?" can some one tell me for example how I can open a word 95 file in m$ office 2003? I can do it in openoffice. can some one give me reason why my screen reader can't run on windows 98. older versions did? Krishnakant.
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