"Jon M. Gohr" wrote:
> Anywho ... I had problems relating to hard drive partitioning,
> was using Powerquest's Partition Magic, in hopes of having
> a Win98 and Linux dual boot system. Not to mention that
> the Banshee card seems to be unsupported by XFree86 so I
> wiped out the partition and gave up! Lame I am .... yes.
What is the problem you are having partitioning??? I have used and like
Partition Magic but never had any problems with it. fips 2.0 (located on
your SuSE cdrom in the utilities section -- it is a dos program) will safely
split an existing partition in two, provided you haved packed all the data
in the partition to the beginning using defrag or similar utility -- and
fips is ver very fast compared to PM.
Also, re your video card, you can probably get it to work using the
framebuffer device driver which is new --- see the pages on xfree85.org for
howto information on the framebuffer device driver.
> So essentially I'm looking for any advice in regards to
> what video card I should go out and buy ... NVidia TNT
> based or what? I will say that I HATE ati cards and would
> rather not deal with the garbage they sell. I want something
> that will kick ass in 2d as well as 3d.
That's tood bad, b/c IMHO the xpert98 and later models do kick ass in 2D
though maybe slightly weak in 3D ... as well the new ATI 128 is top rated in
both 2D and 3D, and ATI has always been well-supported in Linux.
If not ATI, then Matrox G200-based cards are excellent in both 2D and 3D
and are fully supported. Also, for straight gaming, NVidia Riva (TNT and
128) or Number 9 Revolution 3D are good choices.
> Sound card? MX300 ... lost cause?
OSS (an optional component in the SuSE setup -- see the docs) plans support
for this card -- but it ain't there yet. See www.opensound.com. Given your
background, you could probably assist in getting this card supported -- I
would love to be able to use the MX300 myself!! Sound is definitely the
weak leak in Linux. The Soundblaster PCI128 and 64 models are listed on the
OSS database as working. I haven't tried these as I am waiting patiently
for Aureal Vortex support.
> Partitioning ... any
> advice that anyone who's used Partition Magic can offer?
see above
>
> I successfully set up a Win98/NT Server dual boot configuration,
> took no friggin time at all and have been developing software
> as a profession for the last 10 years (with quite a good record of
> success) so I don't think I'm a lost cause. but Linux makes me feel
> stupid, despite some Unix C development experience
Don't know why, I have found WIndows NT and 98 MUCH more difficult to
install, maintain and configure than Linux in its latest incarnations. What
problems were you experiencing???
If you have unusual hardware, the key is that you have to read read read.
Make sure you install all the man pages, docs and books (they are not
installed by default cause they take up a lot of space). Find a topic, and
read everything you can. Most of the stuff in *nix is really really
simple. Usually requiring simple editing of text files in the /etc
directory in the worst case.
> And what's up with USB peripheral (keyboard and mouse) support
> for Linux?
No USB support ... yet. There is a group working on USB support and it
should be in one of the next releases.
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