yes, you can get lots of information that way and it can be very helpful
with debugging - I used that to help fix my own SBLive! problems - but the
original question (not from me) was about problems configuring an SBLive !
card in 7.0 , and someone asking that if the Win driver's were uninstalled,
and he reinstalled mandrake from scratch, might that solve his problem - my
answer to that was no.
philomena
At 04:32 PM 10/16/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 16-Oct-00 15:22:58 Central Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
> > While Windows has taken "unpredictable" to a new high, it's none of the
> > Windows software drivers are even loaded when Linux is running so you're
> > right; their residence on a hard drive won't affect anything. You're also
> > right that changing the BIOS will affect Linux.
>
>this maybe true, however you can get info using the inf file found in windows
>about a peice of hardware that the hardware sometimes wont tell you. This is
>the case with pci cards sure linux detects its there but doesnt allways
>detect what it is, or who made it. So using windows to find a known driver or
>using key things like serial or model numbers you can sort through the text
>of many inf files and can find the maker, the exact type of device it may be,
>and from there you can find the companys site to see if they make linux based
>drivers or provide info on how to set up bios settings to better support the
>device in linux.
