Dai, for Creative Sound Blaster, if i read it right in the Slashdot there is
a beta release of the driver, and since Dell is selling hardware based on
X3100 and Blaster Audigy HD, i think there should be some work around to get
it working. I might be wrong but, do give it a try.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:02 PM, { K I R A N } <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, you are right Shishir,
> Some hardware company make the devices only for Windows, like as you
> mentioned winmodem, and wintvtunner. And another difficulty is really lack
> of driver support, for example one of my colleagues want to use ubuntu and
> he has *Creative Sound Blaster Audigy HD* sound card. He tried so much
> options but could not get the solution. One of my friend want to use the
> full feature of his display card *Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100*,
> but he can use only vesa driver for this device and with this driver he
> can not use smooth compiz efficts...
>
> I am also trying to use my tvtunner in ubuntu.. but could not get the
> solution. My Sound driver is working good in sound out but it misbehave
> while I try to use as sound record/capture..
>
> These all things make users difficult to switch or use Linux as their first
> choice OS.
>
> How can we find the solution for these issues? If we can suggest one click
> solution to those users then Linux will be more popular.
>
> Himali
>
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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> One of the biggest hindrance towards adoption of Linux has always been
>> that all the system hardware is not supported by the kernel. I don't know
>> how true this statement is in today's context. Modern distros like Ubuntu,
>> Fedora, SuSE, etc have an exceptional hardware support and it is evident
>> from the fact that almost all of the machines today function out of the box.
>> However, as Jwalanta rightfully said in twitter, its a pain in Windows,
>> specially when you dont have your driver CD by your side for rescue. If just
>> in case you dont have the CD, wow, you got to find the right hardware first,
>> then scour the internet for the drivers and finally download then, which at
>> times is more than few hundred MBs. Finally, after finding all the drivers
>> (i.e., if your NIC or Modem works without the drivers), it will take a good
>> part of an hour and good number of restarts before all your hardware drivers
>> are installed and ready for use. And people say its still difficult to run,
>> use Linux. :)
>>
>> I agree to the fact that there are still many shortcomings in number and
>> type of hardware supported by Linux (winmodem being the most crucial one),
>> we have to admit the fact that, Linux does support more hardware than
>> Windows does when it comes to 'out of the box' manner. So, though Linux
>> still has some quirks as far as support and availability off the shelf
>> drivers are concerned, I think its better than M$ in almost every respect
>> and I personally love it for what it is.
>>
>> Godspeed Linux, OSS and its derivatives.
>>
>> --
>> Shishir Jha
>> EPC 1970,GPO 8975,
>> KTM,NEPAL
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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EPC 1970,GPO 8975,
KTM,NEPAL
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