Can I use an AWE64 ISA sound card on Fedora 12?
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From: Ohmster on 17 Jan 2010 09:52 "J.O. Aho" <user(a)example.net> wrote in news:7rg4bmFlttU1(a)mid.individual.net: > > Think most distributions which are for desktop has dropped ISA > drivers, there should be an extras kernel package you can install, > which includes less common drivers that RedHat supports in Fedora, > sorry but don't remember the exact name. Install this one afterwards, > if it don't work, then you have to go trough the pita of building the > kernel-source package from the kernel.src.rpm, install it and then > build the module you need for your sound card, or see if you can't get > a used SB Live PCI for a few bucks. I am sure I have some other soundblaster cards in the other room. I might have an Audigy and maybe a Live, but not sure right now. Will try to get this one working, it always worked really well in Linux and last time I had a problem getting it going but once I did, it worked really well. I just used yum to install awesfx and yum updated the package. I also used telinit to get to a regular console because I like to boot to run level 3 and use startx and it will help with the video drive. I downloaded the nvidia driver but it won't run because it cannot find the kernel headers! I just used yum to install pkg "kernel-devel" and that worked fine but Nvidia still won't run because it cannot find the kernel headers. > Don't forget that to get your "beryl", run (kde and gnome2 support): > > yum install -y ccsm emerald-themes compizconfig-backend-kconfig > compizconfig-backend-gconf fusion-icon* emerald compiz-fusion > compiz-fusion-gnome libcompizconfig compiz-gnome compiz-bcop compiz > compizconfig-python compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-extras-gnome > compiz-kde compiz-manager I watched the packages install and compiz and beryl were in the list! But I cannot use them without the nvidia driver. Oh one more thing is drving me batty, please help. In a runlevel 3 console, the font is very, very small and worst, there is no mouse at all so I can no longer copy and paste anything from the console! Is there anyway to get the console mouse back? Please forgive me, I will have a ton of questions for a while and then I will die back down again. Thank you Aho and everyone else. -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: J.O. Aho on 17 Jan 2010 10:04 Ohmster wrote: > Oh one more thing is drving me batty, please help. In a runlevel 3 > console, the font is very, very small and worst, there is no mouse at all > so I can no longer copy and paste anything from the console! Is there > anyway to get the console mouse back? Start the gpm service, thats the one for mouse support for your console. You may need to install gpm, but should work with "yum install gpm". There are two things which can be done when it comes to the font size, you can choose to boot into another screen resolution, see the vga kernel boot option. Another thing that can be done is to use another font than the default for the console, I don't remember which file did have that in RedHat based distros. -- //Aho
From: J G Miller on 17 Jan 2010 10:11 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:47:05 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote: > Fedora is RedHats development distribution, the experience from it will > be the base to make the next RedHat Enterprise Linux. Yes I was aware of that fact. And because it is a development distribution, RedHat does not provide customer support for it.
From: Java Jive on 17 Jan 2010 13:06 Think I should point out thought, that I'm not sure that I've ever tried to use it with Linux! On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:32:17 +0000, Java Jive <java(a)evij.com.invalid> wrote: > > Might do better to look for a Terratec USB Aureon 5.1 MkII though > (MKII is important if you want SPDIF), as they tend to be cheaper. I > got one for about �12-�13 a few years ago, and am extremely happy with > it. -- ========================================================= Please always reply to ng as the email in this post's header does not exist. Or use a contact address at: http://www.macfh.co.uk/JavaJive/JavaJive.html http://www.macfh.co.uk/Macfarlane/Macfarlane.html
From: Jasen Betts on 17 Jan 2010 14:41
On 2010-01-17, J.O. Aho <user(a)example.net> wrote: > Ohmster wrote: > >> Oh one more thing is drving me batty, please help. In a runlevel 3 >> console, the font is very, very small and worst, there is no mouse at all >> so I can no longer copy and paste anything from the console! Is there >> anyway to get the console mouse back? > > Start the gpm service, thats the one for mouse support for your console. > You may need to install gpm, but should work with "yum install gpm". > > There are two things which can be done when it comes to the font size, you can > choose to boot into another screen resolution, see the vga kernel boot option. > > Another thing that can be done is to use another font than the default for the > console, I don't remember which file did have that in RedHat based distros. You can install the package "svgatextmode" which will let you change to a different text raster size sync rate etc, and load different fonts. svgatextmode uses a config file not entirely unlike the old XF86Config which lists a bunch of sets of settings for different modes. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- |