[KLUG Members] Problems installing Fedora Core 4 (Red Hat Linux)

[Chester Wisniewski]

Michael Lueck wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:59:46 -0700 (PDT), Don R. Budd wrote:
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>>Intel Desktop Board D915PBL,
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>Hi Don,
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>Nice choice of board. Make sure you run the latest BIOS... can be a monkey
>puzzle to make their BIOS diskette though! ;-)
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>Happen to disable the onboard sounds to use the plugin card? That might help.
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>Graphics and Linux usually does not equal nVidia chips though. ATI plays with
>alternate OS developers far better than nVidia does... and on Windows nVidia
>has the better (and even unified) driver... so hard to get a cross platform
>graphics chip these days!
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>Unless you are tied to that distro, you might fetch the latest Ubuntu CD and
>try that. They did a good job integrating X.org from what I hear and work w/o
>issue with many laptops that cause issues with other distros. You might find it
>works better with the nVidia board.
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>Michael Lueck
>Lueck Data Systems
>http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
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Its interesting that you think NVidia is more problematic than ATI. 
NVidia is the only vendor that even supplies drivers that actually work, 
and support dual-head , etc. ATI's drivers are horrendous and nearly 
incompatible with any 3D application out there. Almost all OpenGL apps 
have a sidenote to try and help ATI users get them to work. Odd that we 
have had such opposite experiences. My NVidia experience has been 
awesome with my GeForce 6800. Not sure what the support is like in 
Fedora but it is good in Gentoo and worked well with SuSe and Ubuntu 
previous to Gentoo.

cw