Re: 20 basic Linux newbie commands to identify the system

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:45:31 -0400

"Douglas O'Neal" <oneal@dbi.udel.edu> wrote in message
news:c4rni8$gaj$1@scrotar.nss.udel.edu...
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> -> "Joe Sixpack" <complaintdepartment2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> -> news:hsip4c.bko.ln@192.168.1.75...
> < snip>
> ->
> -> It's certainly true that with most older, standard audio devices such
as
> -> Creative Labs and Ensoniq cards Linux is quite good about getting it
> running
> -> without a hiccup. But this certainly has not always been the case even
> -> there: remember playing with isapnp and pnpdump to get the Plug N' Pray
> -> devices not to interfere with each other's IRQ's? That wasn't so long
> ago.
> ->

Watch the quoting here. It kinda looks like Joe Sixpack said that, when it
ware really me.

> Key word here is *most*. Wait until you get a Dell Dimension desktop
> system that somebody ordered with a Soundblaster Live! card that refuses
> to be recognized. Turns out that the chip is a emu10kx that puts the
> sound processing back on the cpu and no linux driver is available. The
> standard emu10k driver loads with no errors but you get no sound.
>
> Hardly a case of "Linux works right out of the box."

Yup. The vendor doubtless included a driver CD or driver floppies for your
use, tested under Windows as well, and said "duhh, Dell says we support
Linux? No one told *me*, duuuhhhh, let me take your email address and ignore
it for six weeks, duhhhh". I've dealt with Dell support before: their
Latitude machines and getting XFree86 working at more than 640x480 was an
adventure.

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