Re: Fedora Core 1 & the AU8810

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:08:53 -0400, RonB wrote:

Tommy Reynolds wrote:
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:54:32 -0400, RonB wrote:


But the sound card problem is a bit more confusing -- at least for a
Linux idiot like me. I gather you have to download and install "alsa"
which I've done. But it also appears that I need to recompile my Linux
kernel to 2.6xxx. That scares me a bit.


Good! It should! Your instincts are right about this.

You do NOT want to do this. The difference between a 2.4 and a 2.6
kernel are so significant that you also MUST change out the runtime
libraries for the applications as well as changing out some of the
kernel assist RPM's such as the modutils -- wait, the name of that
package changed for the 2.6 kernel -- get the drift?

The only reason I was thinking of upgrading the kernel is because (I
think) they say alsa requires 2.6xxx. But I'm not really sure about that.
I'm just trying to get the soundcard to work. It's onboard, but I might
able to disable and buy another cheap sound card.

One other question. I'm running a Celeron 366 computer with 192 Megs of
memory. Fedora Core 1 runs great on it. I'm thinking about downloading
and installing Fedora Core 5 -- but not if it slows my computer down
quite a bit. Taking into account the age of my computer, would I be
better off sticking with Fedora Core 1?


Never heard of a "366", do you mean a "i386"? Support for that CPU chip
has been dropped from the Fedora distro. I don't remember just now
which version did this and use the one before that. Go to the
fedoralegacy.org site and check the release notes for FC2 and FC3 to
find out.

I meant a 366mhz Celeron (Pentium II class) machine. Sorry for the
confusion.

Also, 192 MB is smallish these days and a graphic environment may feel
quite sluggish. KDE and GNOME have all gotten bloated, so check google
for some alternatives: "x11 window managers". I find that
http://xwinman.org/ is a good place to start.

Actually Fedora Core 1 is running faster on this machine than Windows
98SE. And I'm currently using Gnome, but I'll look into xwinman. I have
tried a few of the other Xwindows managers in the past and they were
leaner. Thanks.

You might want to give FC5 a try. Gnome got faster and less memory hungry
in FC5 relative to FC4. I don't know how it compares to FC1. If you can
add memory to your box it will help a lot, I suspect that 384 is the max
your machine will support.


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