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| Trevor and Taby 2004-12-07, 8:45 pm |
| I want to try Fedora Core 3 and was wondering weather anyone has had any
problem with soundblaster live 5.1 analog. I am still tossing up weather or
not to install FC3. I did have mandrake 10.1 on my machine recently but took
it off due to problems with sound. I have tried fedora 2 in the past but
when I installed it, it made my machine unbootable, has there been similar
problems with FC3??
Any general input would be greatly appreciated, is it worth putting onto my
machine ??
cheers
trev
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| Steve Rush 2004-12-08, 2:45 am |
| On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:29:43 +0000, Trevor and Taby wrote:
> I want to try Fedora Core 3 and was wondering weather anyone has had any
> problem with soundblaster live 5.1 analog. I am still tossing up weather
> or not to install FC3. I did have mandrake 10.1 on my machine recently
> but took it off due to problems with sound. I have tried fedora 2 in the
> past but when I installed it, it made my machine unbootable, has there
> been similar problems with FC3??
> Any general input would be greatly appreciated, is it worth putting onto
> my machine ??
I've got FC3, and everything works on my Dell P4 system. FC2 had problems
with up2date, which seem to have been resolved. Of course, I'm still
using the default audio and video hardware in my Intel 810 motherboard, so
I don't know if your Soundblaster will work.
I also have a Compaq R3010US laptop running FC3, where everything works
except the [Insert favorite profanity here] Broadcom Wi-Fi hardware. Some
people report that they can load the Windows driver using ndiswrapper, but
I've never got it to work. It looks like I'll either have to wait for the
reverse-engineering project over at Sourceforge, or buy a PCMCIA card
adapter that is supported by Linux.
My main complaint is not Fedora-specific: I can't find a newsreader for
Linux that works as well as Forte Agent. Pan is _almost_ as good, but it
doesn't handle as many binary formats. I could still run Agent, but I
would rather block all Internet access while running Windows; that's the
simple way to opt out of the vulnerability-of-the-week club.
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| Trevor and Taby 2004-12-08, 2:45 am |
| cheers for the info
trev
"Steve Rush" <steverush1@SPAM_ME_NOT.cox.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.12.08.07.57.24.88478@SPAM_ME_NOT.cox.net...
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:29:43 +0000, Trevor and Taby wrote:
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> I've got FC3, and everything works on my Dell P4 system. FC2 had problems
> with up2date, which seem to have been resolved. Of course, I'm still
> using the default audio and video hardware in my Intel 810 motherboard, so
> I don't know if your Soundblaster will work.
>
> I also have a Compaq R3010US laptop running FC3, where everything works
> except the [Insert favorite profanity here] Broadcom Wi-Fi hardware. Some
> people report that they can load the Windows driver using ndiswrapper, but
> I've never got it to work. It looks like I'll either have to wait for the
> reverse-engineering project over at Sourceforge, or buy a PCMCIA card
> adapter that is supported by Linux.
>
> My main complaint is not Fedora-specific: I can't find a newsreader for
> Linux that works as well as Forte Agent. Pan is _almost_ as good, but it
> doesn't handle as many binary formats. I could still run Agent, but I
> would rather block all Internet access while running Windows; that's the
> simple way to opt out of the vulnerability-of-the-week club.
>
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| General Schvantzkoph 2004-12-08, 5:45 pm |
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> I also have a Compaq R3010US laptop running FC3, where everything works
> except the [Insert favorite profanity here] Broadcom Wi-Fi hardware. Some
> people report that they can load the Windows driver using ndiswrapper, but
> I've never got it to work. It looks like I'll either have to wait for the
> reverse-engineering project over at Sourceforge, or buy a PCMCIA card
> adapter that is supported by Linux.
Ndiswrapper works with the Broadcom 54G. I have a Compaq R3000z
running FC3 with a Broadcom 54G and it works fine. You'll need the XP
driver and Ndiswrapper, follow the instructions in Ndiswrapper's README
file and you'll find that it works fine.
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| Sandgroper 2004-12-09, 7:45 am |
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"Steve Rush" <steverush1@SPAM_ME_NOT.cox.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.12.08.07.57.24.88478@SPAM_ME_NOT.cox.net...
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:29:43 +0000, Trevor and Taby wrote:
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> My main complaint is not Fedora-specific: I can't find a newsreader for
> Linux that works as well as Forte Agent. Pan is _almost_ as good, but it
> doesn't handle as many binary formats.
Use Knode , it better than Pan and it's a lot easy to configure.
--
Sandgroper
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| David Barnsdale 2004-12-09, 8:45 pm |
| On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:29:43 +0000, Trevor and Taby wrote:
> Any general input would be greatly appreciated, is it worth putting onto my
> machine ??
If you go for it be sure to check out
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
Tho it is the "unofficial" FAQ you should treat it
as important as reading the Release Notes.
David
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