[ale] FC2 install quickies

[Dow Hurst]

The simplest HOWTO on the books for sound config = SBLive OEM.

Cheap solution too!
Dow


tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, bim wrote:
> 
> 
>>t,
>>
>>What did not work correctly? Would you mind expanding
>>on the "disk/machine combo" with a mobo spec, etc.,?
>>It would help us "in advance."  Also-
>>model of Nvidia card, etc.
>>Your question seems interesting, but even Inspector
>>Cleusau would need more than this...
> 
> 
> Inspector Cleusau will have trouble with me _every_ time I get that 
> obscure. My deepest appologies, because I wasn't thinking at all clearly. 
> 
> 
> What _didn't_ work at all was the sound cards; one a via based chipset on 
> the motherboard, the other a PCI card. I was overlooking the obvious and 
> simplest possible solution to a computer conflict - pull one of the 
> offenders out of the way! (After 20 minutes on the web I had to go and 
> remember that solution - I am feeling deeply embarrassed about this) I 
> killed the via chipset by way of the bios - and everything works lovely.
> 
> Now, it would be just lovely if somewhere on the web a HOW-TO exists which 
> addresses manually configuring sound card(s) when the hardware probing 
> doesn't work quite as expected, or not at all. I'll be working on that for 
> some time I suspect.
> 
> 
> The comment with respect to the NVidia card was intended as a throwaway - 
> just in case something had changed in a big way with respect to these 
> cards and Linux and people on this list had heard of it. After obtaining 
> the appropriate driver from NVidia, installing it, and testing the 3-D 
> acceleration stuff, This subsystem works and appears to work well. 
> 
> 
> Again, my appologies to the group for an unusually obscure request. 
> 
> 
>>--- tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>For better or worse, I've put Fedora Core 2 on a
>>>spare disk/machine combo, 
>>>and now I'm going through the find/fix cycle of
>>>things that didn't _quite_ 
>>>work out correctly.  I'm heading out onto the WWW,
>>>but just in case 
>>>somebody has a great lead or already solved
>>>something... 
>>>
>>>For the NVidia card - I already know to head over to
>>>the vendor's site and 
>>>rattle around. Aggrivating but not fatal.
>>>
>>>There is a built-in sound system and a pci card
>>>system. Both are detected 
>>>by the hardware probe (I can check back and get the
>>>labels if needed), but 
>>>neither is successfully configured. Anybody know of
>>>a good source of sound 
>>>configuration fu for placing into /etc/modules.conf?
>>>After dinner I'll 
>>>probably try pulling the pci card and just
>>>configuring the onboard stuff 
>>>to see if it works ok. (RH9 the onboard sound just
>>>didn't cut it.)
>>>
>>>Other than these two known issues, so far, I'm
>>>impressed enough. 
>>>
>>>Thanks for your time in advance!
>>>
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