On Friday 07 December 2001 03:27 pm, Harm Bathoorn wrote: > Hi all, > > Just to share my experiences. I acquired a Pentium4 chipset and ditto > motherboard (Intel D845WN). To boot I received a lovely present: > a Hercules prophet 4000XT (64mb) video card.---- Sheer horror! The whole > lot put together. > > The motherboard has a (not too helpful) cd-ROM with it. It (of course) > contains m$ drivers, but not the right ones...well done, wintel!:( > > Mdk8.1 installed reasonably well, considering it didn't recognize any of > the chipsets........ but the Hercules AGP card (with Kyroschips) was/is a > killer. I can handle a gui at 16 bits...That's it!!...:( > And frankly that's the only (major) hassle I haven't been able to deal > with, as of yet. >
Kyros has been going out of its way to be uncooperative for drivers, and if their corporate attitude continues through the passage of UCITA, then even reverse-engineering drivers will not be possible, because it will be illegal. But right now, it appears if you want gaming performance in linux, look elsewhere. > The integrated soundcard works under linux excepting trouble with shared > IRQ's due to the extra USB ports. After disabling the USB ports (I only > need one, I've got an external USB-hub) my shutdown problems were over--the > shutdown procedure hung itself over shutting down USB ports:( Which made me > change over to ext3 -- and I like it!:) > I got the whole lot going in a reasonable way, as this mail proves:) > BUT there's plenty more to be done afore it meets my expectations, it > wasn't all as cheap as it sounds. Wintel products don't come for free.....! > > SO....I thought: Why not install Winblow$ and see what I'm missing? > Looked up my ol' 98 OEM cd-ROM and away she was....... > Installing the (not all too correct ) drivers from the Intel cd-ROM did the > job, then the cd-ROM that came with the Hercules card..OK! (not terrific > but OK!) > But, but...NO Sound:( and still IRQ problems of course. > > I swear: I will never purchase anything from Intel again if there's an AMD > option available!! > And that's putting it mildly! Two days ago I would have pounced on- and > gladly assaulted anyone connected in anyway to Intel. > > Time heals all wounds! And if it doesn't, some good soul will have written > a linux driver (which I couldn't) somewhere to releave my woe's:) > That's why I love this OS and the people along with it!:) -- HOPE! -- > > Good hunting, > Harm Bathoorn. Good luck, Civileme
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