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n00b linux questions...sound, video, and ntfs reading etc

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xSauronx

Lifer
havent had alot of time, but ive tried a couple distros in the last few weeks since i put another rig together, and am looking for one to use on my main system.

had a couple problems though (used Mandrake 9.1, Debian 3.0 and Knoppix)
first, none of them could configure my onboard sound properly. is there a fairly painless way to get it to work? (avance ac 97 on an epox via kt333 baord). Ill be putting a sb live into the main rig soon (will that work well??) but my other system will still just have onboard sound and id _like_ for it to work.
Knoppix detected that it was onboard, but didnt configure it right. i just wanna listen to music and hear some sound if i get games working, dont care if 5channels work or whatever since i just use a 2.1 setup

and how much trouble should i have getting 3d acceleration working on a gf2/gf3?
didnt use mandrake long enough to mess with it, and it gave me fits in debian but im a total newbie to this so i really didnt know alot about what to do, or where to go.

i liked that knoppix started up mounting my NTFS drives, is this easy to set up with other distros? im kinda leaning toward staying with debian w/ KDE, something didnt feel right about mandrake to me, and i havent used knoppix enough to know whether or not id like to install that permanently (how difficult is it? since its made to run from a cd...)

any other desktop distros worth trying? thought about gentoo but i dont really want to compile everything i have to use....oh impatience 🙂
SuSe worth a shot? anything else anyone has tried?

another thing, while im at it, how much trouble is it to change desktop environments or window managers? i like to be able to customize stuff sometimes so im curious . deban/mandrake made it easy enough to switch between kde/gnome but what about other environments/managers?

thanks 😀
 
sblive is one of the best supported, I'll probably use mine until PCI slots aren't on boards any more =)

Install the drivers from nVidia (pretty painless) and 3D should work fine, I play Q3 on Linux all the time with a GF4.

NTFS depends on what the distro supplies, it's very alpha quality and some companies (mainly RH) don't ship that module. Reading should work fine, but writing is guaranteed to thrash your filesystem. You have to do a ton of things to even enable writing (they made it difficult on purpose) so you should be safe though.
 
how about onboard sound? ill only have one soundblaster, any semi-painless way to get it to work on my other system? (ecs k7s5a board)
 
That mobo was pain in the a$$ for me, in the end I found driver some guy wrote for that Sis sound chip, but it only played at 48Khz, no recording etc.
I don't have link and that was long time ago, things might be different now.
 
I never had any problems with the K7S5A, it worked out of the box on Red Hat, and Mandrake. Debian must support it, but I've since moved on Gentoo and a Sound Blaster 16 PCI.
 
As far as NTFS support goes, reading NTFS is extremely well supported (although you have to install an RPM and walk through a few steps to enable it in RedHat); writing to an NTFS partition is extremely dodgy, though.
 
Oh, and 3D acceleration is a piece of cake to get working with a GeForce card; just go to the nVidia website and download the driver.
 
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