Re: Fedora Core 1 & the AU8810

Moe Trin wrote:

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<e1qp8p$rd1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, RonB wrote:
Yeah, but you can still buy the Redhat 9 Bibles for *full* price at
Borders! :~]

That is a problem with dead tree books - they take a long time to go
from the author's desk to the stores, and are usually at least one
release behind - sometimes two. But it really gets bad with the
smaller bookstores. I've seen five year old books still offered - and
when you hit the bargain counter... would you believe "Slackware 96
Unleashed" for only ten dollars?

I know, I saw some ancient stuff at MicroCenter for full price. There
doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.

I understand. I was surprised that Redhat still let's me download
updates (a whole slew of them) for FC1.

Current status at 'fedoralegacy.com' is 7.3 and 9 are still supported,
7.2 and 8.0 errata to May 2004 (5 months after official support
ended), Fedora 1, 2, and 3 still supported. Fedora 4 and 5 are
currently being supported. This is also an improvement over past
errata sources, as the keep all errata, not just the "latest" on. This
was a problem on releases like 5.2, where (for example) rpm was
updated from version x.x.x to x.x.y to x.x.z, to x.y.x, to z.x.x
(don't recall the exact versions) but the preceding update was needed
to install the later one - you couldn't take an 'out-of-box' install
and just grab the latest errata. In a number of cases, the new ones
wouldn't install because they needed features of the intermediate
update.

Interesting. Odd the way it jumps around.

For now, I think it's easier to get another brand of sound card. Any
suggestions on works best for Fedora?

The only systems I have with sound have either an ancient AWE64, or
something built onto the motherboard.

They sold me a cheap sound card at the computer place. A C-Media with a
CMI8738 chipset. I was just going to pick up a used Creative Labs
soundcard, but --no-- this one's newer, therefore better. It supposedly
came with Linux support -- except I have to compile it, just like I would
have had to do with the AU8820 (and I don't have all the tools needed for
that). Fedora *did* see the card and thought it was working, but no sound.
No big deal. I've downloaded the FC5 CDs, stole 128 Meg of memory from one
computer, so I've got 256 on the other and I'm installing FC5 now. I'm
hoping it will see the AU8820. If everything goes well on the test
computer, I'm going to give Fedora5 25 Gigs on my main computer, give it
256 Meg and start a new Fedora install from scratch. (Didn't want to mess
up FC1 if FC5 has problems.)

ALSA was included in FC2.

I might try getting FC2, as well as FC5. Thanks.

FC2 isn't that much better (from an updates standpoint) than FC1. Even
though you have the diskspace, I'd recommend either FC5 or at least
FC4. Last I looked, the .iso files are available for all on the
fedoralegacy server, and I _think_ also on the redhat server.

The mirror server I found for the eastern United States, from
www.fedora.redhat.com, is lightning fast. Each iso image downloaded in
about 20 minutes. This motel has pretty fast broadband internet, but I
would still rather be home.

Thanks for all the advice and for the the fedoeralegacy link. I'll pass on
my experiences with FC5.

--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
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