Originally posted by: Davegod75
I'm trying out the suse 9.2pro live cd and it looks sweet so far. nice interface and very smooth etc.
however, it did not detect a ton of my hardware correctly. Is this because it's the live cd?
Could be, your definately not going to get the full features aviable from a full install. Also some live cd setups are going to be better then others. Suse's live CDs in the past have been more of a preview sort of thing rather then a actual OS. They get released before the OS itself is stable so your going to see some improvement when moving to the real thing.
Try out the latest Knoppix cdrom and see if that helps. Or install the newest distro you can find and see what it catches. Properly supported hardware usually is detected and setup automaticly, but i think its rare to have a Linux install go 100% for hardware support.
Sound doesn't work - Audigy2 zs
I have a audigy 1, and that uses the same drivers as the sound blaster 5.1 live stuff, which are the emu10k1 drivers. However Audigy 2 is slightly different with more variations involved and will use slightly different hardware.
Check out the
alsa project.org website for details
looks like they extended emu10k1 to support Audigy 2's.
Usually audigy cards are well supported. May all be setup and you just need to adjust the levels, open up a terminal and run the "alsamixer" command and adjust the levels. If your card is completely unconfigured the alsamixer command will fail saying it can't open the mixer or something like that.
check out here too for usefull information. For some reason it's not working for me, the dns server is failing to resolve into a ip address, which sucks. But it has good information on the audigy and such.
can't print -finds printer but have no access..what's the password?
Not sure what is going on here, is it a networked printer or local printer or what? To get to the CUPS configuration stuff you can open up a browser and type in:
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://127.0.0.1:631">https://127.0.0.1:631</a>
Nvidia FX5200 - wouldn't let me choose this manually either
Doesn't realy matter. All the Nvidia cards newer then Geforce245 or something like that use the same drivers. "nv" is the open source version and you have to go to nvidia's website to get their propriatory drivers and install them per the "readme" (important to read) instructions. Sometimes Suse has special installation instructions.
look here. They are a bit different then any other distro.
Canon Canoscan Lide50 - no drivers
don't know. Canon has crap for Linux drivers though. Them and Lexmark are 2 manufacturers to aviod like the plague, most of their printer/scanner stuff won't work. Not so sure about the scanners though.
Linux has it's own scanner stuff that is different from the TWAIN things that you generally use in Macs and Windows. It's called 'SANE', and
here is the supported devices.
Generally for printers you want to stick with Epson or HP. Personally I use a HP multifunction device and it works fairly well.
check out here for details on linux printing.
Dell 1801FP - had the 1700fp and 2000fp. (stuck at 1024x768 and won't let me change)
that's a flatscreen or something? If suse's GUI configuration tools don't allow you to select the settings you want you can manually input all that into the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and expressly tell it your refresh rates and desired resolutions. use to be called /etc/X11/XFree86, but examples from that will work if you use them in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Bunch of motherboard driver like
- PCI bridge
- Memory controller hub
don't about that sort of thing. your PCI cards work, and your memory works, right? What more do you need? I don't think I've ever had to deal with these to things ever. But if something doesn't work, then something doesn't work... so I don't know.
Not so sure about this one either. Generally used for stuff like sensors and things like that, right? Some motherboards are well supported, some aren't so well supported. Depends heavily on your chipset, which I don't know anything about.
For hardware sensors check out
this website. Somethings are supported more then others, for instance on my Via-based motherboard I can get fan speeds and statuses and cpu tempurature and I think even my video card temp. (maybe), but on my Intel based laptop all I get is a output about how much memory I have in each slot.
But generally this sort of thing most people don't worry about to much. I just works usually.
- Audigy2 gameport
- Audigy2 MIdi
Alsa stuff again. The gameport is a bit different i think. Requires a joystick driver or something like that. Not to familar about it. I use a USB joystick, though, and it's configured and detected automaticly.
Should be supported no problem. Don't know why it isn't. Like I said before the Suse Live disks are beta previews most of the time, and they are going to only concentrate on the essentials for setting up things. (network, ide controller drivers and the such)
- Processor to AGP controller
For this most motherboards have 2 options. One is to use the propriatory Nvidia AGP driver that is installed along with propriatory drivers. The second is the open source AGP driver specific to the motherboard. I don't know about your setup, but on my Via motherboard I have both ways to support the AGP slot. I think I use Nvidia's AGP driver, though, but I can use either successfully. Details are in the Nvidia README file.
At linux-gamers.com they have some more information about this stuff
here, they also have some more information on ATI cards and things like joysticks and getting all the buttons on a fancy mouse going.
Also check out the forums at nvidia.com for their "community' support stuff. If you run into problems they have lots of semi-usefull information that can help you out.
Don't know anything about this stuff.
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