Hi Jan: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:33:54AM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > Both Fedora and Debian have problems with my Hardware. They both choose > the wrong driver for my network card. I have a news pc since a few months, and th ethernet card was immediately found and supported under Etch, while no any driver can be found under the Sarge: for very recent hardware, use a very recent distro with a very recent kernel aso. >In Fedora it's easy, just change the > alias eth0 in modprobe.conf. I haven't found an equally easy way of doing > it in Debian yet. for persistent problems with hardware, let some sighted person enable/disable things in your BIOS. You will also set soundchips disabled for the problem you explain here below, + if not sure blacklising teh name of the sound chipset in the appropriate dire, under Debian Sarge : /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/ (touch name of the module to clacklist, example: touch ehci_hcd or snd_via82xx if your pc have a VIA Technology sound chip). >I also have two soundcards installed and both distros > choose the wrong one (which doesn't work) most of the time. In fact the right one is always loaded using OSS; but when you switch to ALSA, if the "wrong" one isn't set disabled in your BIOS, it will still be considered as card0, and that's the problem with ALSA: IMHO, when some people choose for an external soundcard, I suppose that they do taht for quality reasons; it should be logical if ALSA uses by default the last found card, not the first one. > If you use Fedora, you'll find it easier to keep up to date with Orca and > Firefox and other GUI related programs thanks to the work being done by > private individuals. The same goes for Ubuntu. With Debian you have to do > this work yourself, which isn't really a big deal. I've not tried Orca yet, but it will of course be an Ubuntu if I do taht one of these rainy days! > I tried the Edgy live CD but I never managed to get Gnome to work even > though I fiddled around with it quite a bit. > > All in all, I think I'll stay with Debian and just try to keep up with the > Gnome upgrades. Maybe we have t obe patient until the Etch will be released, the stable Deb is 3 years old now. > Bertil Smark Nilsson Very nice feedback. Thnx! Aldo. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list