FC7 help

Your-Amish-Daddy

In roughly 3 hours, I will be installing FC7, and I'm gonna need some help finding/installing drivers. I'm sick and expletive deleted of how unstable XP is, and I'm sick of randomly finding this BLACK SCREEN. Download something from here, BLACK SCREEN on reboot. I get my mouse, I can still use my desktop, and I can do anything I used to do, I just can't see it. This is the fifth time, thus it is the LAST time.

Up yours, Microsoft. Tired of you not working.

SPIKE09

Only problem I can see if you are installing in your rig in sig is the ATI gfx, installed this on a d805 on an abit sg-95 with a ATi x1600 PRO and it just worked.

Your-Amish-Daddy

I've already picked up the drivers for it, and they're waiting on my thumbstick, along with my wireless stuff, and since my northbridge drivers are Open Source, Nvidia says that it's covered. But my poor Audigy..

SPIKE09

I would strongly suggest a quick visit to the fed support forum and either posting or doing a search, you ain't the 1st to try runing an audigy with fed

Your-Amish-Daddy

Thread I read said the 1's detected, and that's my big thing. If it can see it, I can make it work. But it appears that I can only run ONE sound device at a time.

Double Dammit. I use both my soundcards.

SPIKE09

Just had a read of My fed core bible and it says, post on the fed forums. sorry to be of no real help but the best folks to advise are peeps using the distro fulltime.

GrayFox

The ati drivers released erlyer this week are quite kick ass there performance still sucks and X1800/X1900 users still cant use XGL. But Catalyst controller centers fully ported now giving it a tool as good as nvidia's for configuration.

Also you should probably go with something Debian based like Ubuntu.


edit: Just a side note if you plan to go Debian all of stables software (etch) is quite old testing (lenny) is a good balance and unstable (sid) is always in a state of change one update might break every proprietary piece of software on your machine.

Your Amish Daddy wrote:

I've already picked up the drivers for it, and they're waiting on my thumbstick, along with my wireless stuff, and since my northbridge drivers are Open Source, Nvidia says that it's covered. But my poor Audigy..

The only propitiatory drivers you need are ati's.

The audigy has full support built into the kernel if you use Debian you will need to recompile your kernel for support, on Ubuntu everything but 3d will work out of the box.
With FC (deadrat based) I have no idea what will work.

edit: If you need help with anything and you are on a debian based distro just pm me and I can give you my aim address. If your on a deadrat based distro I can't help you as I haven't used deadrat for over 6 years.

Just for clarification.
Deadrat=redhat

Your-Amish-Daddy

Well, my thing is, FC has always given me trouble. I like trouble when it comes to linux. It adds to the little EXP bar in my brain, that's started to accumulate dust. I never liked debian because back when I ran with the penguin, it was literally the least-supported. I've also, spent since this thread was made, waiting for FC7 to download, and I even went and bought some DVD's. IF ubuntu/Debian are your favorites, Point me to a distro that doesn't have the mac-layout.

And, since I can't use XGL (Believe me, that was ONE of the major points for me to switch) is 4.3 usable?

Your-Amish-Daddy

DOUBLE CRAP! I forgot to add, I need a player in linux that supports ultravox.