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Ubuntu - First Impressions

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andrewnez

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Hi all,

I downloaded a live CD of UBUNTU today, i have tried out installing Suse and mandrake last year but it didnt go to well, but im trying to get more into linux at the moment and today i dived back in with this live CD from Ubuntu.

I was very impressed at the ease of use, just poped the CD in and rebooted and it all work, the only bit of hardware that didnt work from the getgo was my soundcard, but that doesn't work on windows either unless i install the drivers.

Everything worked very easily, as a desktop system for someone who doesn't need to fiddle, linux seems to have reached a point where it can be usuable without having to much difficulty, unlike last time i tried with SUSE i had multiple installation errors and all sorts of difficulties with my ATI 9800 pro, but now everything has changed.

I have downloaded the full DVD of Fedora Core 4 and once i get a new DVD writer i will install it on a seperate HDD and switch between them as needed, i dont want to mess up my windows install at the moment so i wont be dual booting them yet but i might do that in the future but its more likely i will build a second system for running linux on as a home server and using windows for my games.

Im very impressed with how far linux has come in the past year and i will definatly be getting into linux in a big way from today onwards.

Nez
 
Good to hear.
I'm curious, though: What soundcard?
 
HHunt said:
Good to hear.
I'm curious, though: What soundcard?
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Ya!?! I only got sound to work on my lappy. My Desktop no workie!

I tryed many different soundblasters.

I might need to try a santa cruz or something. I have spent weeks configing Alsa. :(
 
I have a Audigy 2, it didnt work for the live CD, but i got it to work with installations before so it should not be a problem, only thing i noticed about the live Cd is that there are no music or video codecs at all, so i couldnt even play a wav file. is this usual?

nez
 
hmm... Audigy 2 works perfect for me, no real tinkering needed.

do an lsmod and see if emu10k1 is loaded.

If it isn't then 'modprobe emu10k1'

If it is loaded the check 'alsamixer' and make sure your channels don't have the volume all the way down.
 
DR_K13 said:
Ya!?! I only got sound to work on my lappy. My Desktop no workie!

I tryed many different soundblasters.

I might need to try a santa cruz or something. I have spent weeks configing Alsa. :(
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A Chaintech AV-710 is highly recommended. Only $25, and it works with the "ice1724" module. No problems at all with it, hardware-wise.

If only I could figure out dmix... I've tried the official gentoo instructions to no avail. Oh well, at least now nothing interrupts my music. :p

 
you don't need a codec for wav, wav is uncompressed. The volume was probably down or something.

andrewnez said:
I have a Audigy 2, it didnt work for the live CD, but i got it to work with installations before so it should not be a problem, only thing i noticed about the live Cd is that there are no music or video codecs at all, so i couldnt even play a wav file. is this usual?

nez
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Thats what i thought, but it came up with an error that said it needed a codec to play it, but it could be cos the soundcard was not working.
 
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