Re: Hardware issues

2005-08-24 Thread Bruno Buys
John, There are unofficial sources of multimedia packages for Debian that can make your computer quite complete, in terms of multimedia editing. I have done a few myself. Here is some explanation http://debian.video.free.fr/, though things may look cryptic, a little. Dvd and multimedia

Re: Hardware issues

2005-08-24 Thread John Kirkby
Thanks for your suggestion David. I have now downloaded [and put on disc] Knoppix, Ubuntu and Gentoo. Haven't tried them yet as I will be erasing my H-D 1st. Hope I can get all my cards working with at least one of these OS's and can then come across some video/DVD editing software and avoid go

Re: Hardware issues

2005-08-19 Thread Frank Guthorel
Or you could fetch a live CD from http://www.ubuntulinux.org/. While I like Knoppix and used it several times in the past, I find the hardware support of Ubuntu to be better - Knoppix is good, but Ubuntu produced better results for the odd hardware I tried to detect in the past. Ubuntu is also ba

Re: Hardware issues

2005-08-19 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 18 August 2005 23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to use Debian as my OS and be able to > get my soundcard [Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer-24bit] and TV-Tuner > card [ATI TV Wonder-Pro] to work. Have tried simplyMepis and now Mandrake > 10 and c

Re: Hardware issues

2005-08-18 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to use Debian as my OS and be > able to get my ... TV-Tuner card [ATI TV Wonder-Pro] to work. > I can't speak about your particular card, but I have an older ATI All-In-Wonder TV card that mostly works. I had to get the gatos ati.2 d