On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:14 PM, { K I R A N } wrote: > Sure Shishir > If the recent development and release is going then it should work. > But my friend was fade-up with the problem... > Thats why I mentioned here.. > > I will suggest about it. > Dual boot, wait and see :) > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > Shishir Jha > EPC 1970,GPO 8975, > KTM,NEPAL > > > > > > > >
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