Linux Mandrake 8.2... help

[ERmergency]

I'm going to try Linux out for the 1st time. Do I need drivers or anything? Here are my system specs:

AXP 1900+
512 MB PC2100
ABIT KR7A-RAID
80GB RAID0
ATi Radeon 8500
Philips Acoustic Edge 5.1

What about video, sound, 4-in-1, & Highpoint drivers?

What is compatible? I use AIM, mIRC, e-mail, browser like 24/7 on Windows. What about DVD player software? Something that is compatible with VCD/SVCD? Burning software?

Comments appreciated! Is there like a compatibility guide somewhere?

 

[n0cmonkey]

What about video,[/quote]

xf86.org should have information about that, but with a recent version of everything it should be fine

sound,

alsa supports the following philips soundcards:
PhilipsPCA761AWInterwaveinterwave PhilipsUDA1341TS h3600-uda1341iPAQ H3X00 hardware PhilipsSAA7146 discontinued? PhilipsSAA7785Thunderbird

4-in-1,

Not needed

& Highpoint drivers?

They have drivers on their site. Some chipsets may be supported, but why bother with software RAID?

What is compatible? I use AIM,

gaim, toc/tac, name

mIRC,

BitchX, irssi, ircii, epic

e-mail,

mutt, pine, elm, evolution, kmail

browser

opera, mozilla, konqueror, galeon

like 24/7 on Windows. What about DVD player software?

xine maybe?

Something that is compatible with VCD/SVCD?

See previous question, also mplayer might work.

Burning software?

cdrecord (which has a half dozen front ends)

Comments appreciated!

You dont want to hear all the comments.

Is there like a compatibility guide somewhere?

redhat has a hardware compatibility list. freshmeat.net is a searchable database of software, and google.com/linux is your friend.

 

[ERmergency]

:| I don't think my sound card is supported

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: ERmergency
:| I don't think my sound card is supported

Email the vendor and complain. This is why I use old soundcards. I cant hear a difference, they're cheaper, and I know they work.

 

[PG]

Email the vendor and complain. This is why I use old soundcards. I cant hear a difference, they're cheaper, and I know they work.

I agree with that, but I know that the relatively new C-Media soundcards work just fine and they are cheap. Compgeeks usually carry them and they are less than 10 bucks plus shipping.

edit: here's one

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

from what i remember, acoustic edge uses the same chip as turtle beach santa cruz (cs4630). just use the cs46xx module and it should work fine.

although it only works for basic 2 speaker stuff. all the cool multichannel crap and programmable dsp stuff like eq is rendered useless under linux

oh well, it still works and still sounds good

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: PG

Email the vendor and complain. This is why I use old soundcards. I cant hear a difference, they're cheaper, and I know they work.

I agree with that, but I know that the relatively new C-Media soundcards work just fine and they are cheap. Compgeeks usually carry them and they are less than 10 bucks plus shipping.

edit: here's one

ESS and old sound blaster 128 chipsets for me

 

[ERmergency]

So is there a generic like driver that I can use for my sound card?

 

[ERmergency]

Crap... I cant get it to install anyways. Bunch of gibberish that I cant understand... I figure it's not likeing some of my bios configs.

here is a pic

 

[Tiger]

If you're overclocking......don't.

 

[ERmergency]

I'm not

 

[ERmergency]

Maybe it has something to do with my RAID?

ABIT KR7A-RAID
80GB RAID 0
Highpoint BIOS v2.32

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: ERmergency
Maybe it has something to do with my RAID?

ABIT KR7A-RAID
80GB RAID 0
Highpoint BIOS v2.32

Drop the raid, install something worthwhile (software raid 0 makes no sense to me). Or, make sure what you are installing has the high point drivers. Also might want to check the md5 of your iso.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: ERmergencyMaybe it has something to do with my RAID?ABIT KR7A-RAID80GB RAID 0Highpoint BIOS v2.32

Drop the raid, install something worthwhile (software raid 0 makes no sense to me). Or, make sure what you are installing has the high point drivers. Also might want to check the md5 of your iso.

software raid 0 doesnt make sense!?!? aw who cares about data! benchmarks are what's important. (and for the not so quick, a big )

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: ERmergencyMaybe it has something to do with my RAID?ABIT KR7A-RAID80GB RAID 0Highpoint BIOS v2.32

Drop the raid, install something worthwhile (software raid 0 makes no sense to me). Or, make sure what you are installing has the high point drivers. Also might want to check the md5 of your iso.

software raid 0 doesnt make sense!?!? aw who cares about data! benchmarks are what's important. (and for the not so quick, a big )

I forgot where I was for a moment

 

[Calibrator]

If PNP in the bios is enabled disable it.

 

[ERmergency]

umm this isnt a software raid....... it's hardware. Motherboard has a High Point HPT372 IDE RAID Controller.

Is Mandrake 8.2 not compatible with this?

PNP OS is disabled.

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: ERmergency
umm this isnt a software raid....... it's hardware. Motherboard has a High Point HPT372 IDE RAID Controller.

Is Mandrake 8.2 not compatible with this?

PNP OS is disabled.

Thats still software raid.

 

[galt]

Its your raid. Mandrake doesn't support Promise raid cards and Highpoint raid either. What he means by 'software raid' means that though you have an actual chip on your motherboard that does raid (in your case the high point raid chip), it actually makes the cpu do all the raid work. So in reality, your highpoint chip is really just a translator between your hard drive and your cpu. The other 'hardware' raid cards do all the calculations themselves, and are more expensive (not usually included onboard in desktop mobos).

Getting back to things that matter, its your raid thats stopping mandrake. It happened to me too (i have the promise raid onboard). I disabled raid and now it runs fine. If you dont want to disable your raid, then the only way to run linux would be from within windows (VMWARE), or try one of those distro's that work off a bootable cd.

 

[ERmergency]

Thanks for clearing that up.

Well I'm not about to dump my raid, and I don't care to run it with in Windows. So I guess all be skipping the Linux experience.

 

[n0cmonkey]

This is another one of those crappy proprietary "BIOS assisted software raid" cards. That is why I said it was software raid.

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz <<-- "Open Source" Linux drivers
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/FreeBSD_v13_370_372.zip <<-- FreeBSD drivers
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/RedHat_v13_370_372.zip <<-- RedHat
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/RedHat_v71_370_372.zip <<-- RedHAt 7.0/.1
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/RedHat_v72_370_372.zip <<-- RedHat 7.2
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/RedHat_v73_370_372.zip <<--RedHat 7.3

Dont blame linux for your choice of hardware

 

[manly]

I have no intentions of trying it, but I was under the impression SuSE Linux 8.0 supports installation on Promise/Highpoint RAID controllers (not sure if it'll actually see the RAID arrays though; there's an SDB article about that).

Not sure which models are supported, or which other distros support those controllers.