You have to admit that, from a hardware support point of view, Linux still sucks.

[LordWiccara]

try installing Red Hat...i think it has the drive preloaded, they had my hercules and a bunch of others

this is on my old P233MMM with Red Hat 7.1

[ May 18, 2003: Message edited by: ArmTheHomeless ]

[spencerpi]

"Try this" or "try that" are not useful answers.

Others ?

[Faust]

This just in - Faust searches the fucking web, finds this at spot 6 on the google search:
 

quote:
News Todd writes "Allegedly beginners have trouble with installing the Kyro 2 Linux drivers, that's why someone made a tool that should help. Read the description at Sourceforge: "With this tool an automatic script file is produced, which makes the installation of Kyro for II possible drivers on simplest wise."

The tool can be found on Sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/kyro2insttool/"

 

quote:
I had no problems setting up my Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 (a KYRO II based card) using the GENERIC-VESA driver. It would quite easily hit 1200x1024 at 16bits, although I did find it to be a little sluggish..

Possibly you should learn how to use this tool properly - it will help a lot with getting to learn Linux.  

[Faust]

Oh and look at this one (this is old news btw, they're probably finished by now.)-
 

quote:
News LinuxGames.com is reporting that "in an interview (German) with deferred Power at CeBIT, Imagination Technologies' David Harold stated that Linux drivers for their Kyro II chipset are in development." Great news for all of you Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 owners and great news for the rest of us. When new companies are finally realizing that providing Linux drivers is important, we're finally getting somewhere.

   :eek:  

Ok heres the deal-
You go to "www.google.com" by "typing" "www.google.com" into the little white bar into the top of your internet browser.  (Note - your internet browser must be open for this to work.)  Then, you'll notice the "page" your on changes to show "google."  If it doesn't you should be connected to the internet first.  Then in the "search" bar you type the name of the card in quotation marks eg: "Hercules 3D Prophet 4500" and then you write "+linux" after that one.  Then click the "search" button and stop wasting other peoples time.                

[ May 18, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

[Faust]

Oh and  

quote:"Try this" or "try that" are not useful answers.

Why dont you not dismiss other peoples answers when it's obvious from his post that he has found a driver somewhere?  If he got a driver in red hat 7 then there will be a driver in other distributions, that's pretty obvious now isn't it?

[spencerpi]

Thank you Faust. I do know what Google is so no need to act all superior.

If you cared to look beyond what your precious Google produces in results and actually *read* what the sites say then you wouldn't have posted these url's here because what can be found there does not work.

The Sourceforge url will have support for Mandrake 9.1 starting from version 0.5.5. The latest available is 0.5.2.

I could insert a dodgy comment here about elementary school, where you learn to read but then ... I'm passed that age.

How old are you anyway ?

[emh]

You could also just get another video card.

And don't just assume none of your other hardware will work just because you had the bad luck of having one of the few video cards out there that happens not to work with Linux out of the box.

[ May 20, 2003: Message edited by: emh ]

[Pantso]

quote:Originally posted by M505:
Well, I would be grateful if I got help, so far I got nothing working.

Buying a new videocard ? Give me a break, it works fine under another OS. What else ? Get a new processor, new scanner, throw away my digital camera ? No thanks, I'm keeping what I have.

Calling someone who needs help an asshole is *really* mature. Thanks for that. Makes the introduction into the world of Linux so much nicer.

You people have steered off topic a lot. M505 check those sites in my sig. We'd be really happy to help you.    

Closing this..

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by M505:
"Try this" or "try that" are not useful answers.

Others ?

i am sorry, this epitomises idiocy.

person one asks question: how can i...?
person two answers: well, you could try...

now there are two ways the discussion could now go, here's the first one -

person one: thanks, i will try those
...(later on that same day)...
person one: thanks for those suggestions, one/all/none of them worked for me

OR here's the second one:
person one: how dare you tell me to try something? i asked a question and i have a right to an answer! your answer is not good enough you open source slime, now can anybody give me a better answer because i am much better than anyone here and i deserve to be handed the worlds riches on a plate. hurry up, i'm getting impatient.

Now for those of you who are a little slow on the uptake, this:
 

quote:Originally posted by M505:
"Try this" or "try that" are not useful answers.

Others ?

is an example of the second scenario.
It's fairly obvious to me that there are a lot of complete arseholes in the world. It is also completely obvious to me that there is a lot of overpopulation and overcrowding in the world. Put two and to together and you might figure out what i think we should do with all the arseholes (hint, it involves the atlantic and no lifebelts).

[suselinux]

If I ask a question I want as much feed back as I can get

"Try this or try that" would be equal to "do this or do that" as far as I'm concerned.

I don't care how I get it I just want the info.

If I can't use your info one app I might try those same directions on another.

Thats the fun thing about Linux, there is always something new to TRY and get working

using the app is only half the fun

A true Linux user can't disagree with that.

[Calum]

as much feedback as you can get is right.
so how come when some feedback is offered, this imbecile spits it out in the face of the person who offers it? I for one am not willing to put forth any more information or help for a spoilt brat like that, and i am sure a lot of people feel the same.

If somebody is this insulting about their ungratefulness for help freely given, they can not expect anyone else to attempt to help them in future.

[Zombie9920]

quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
Plus, Linux STILL supports ISA cards.  MS stopped doing that with XP.

I think that gives linux a HUGE edge in peripheral support.

BS.

One of my AMD systems has a Soyo K7VTA Pro motherboard which happens to have 1 ISA slot. I have XP installed on that computer. Well, after seeing your claim I took it upon myself to test some old ISA sound cards, video cards, modems and NIC's that I have laying around here just to see wether the ISA cards worked in XP or not.


The results.....well, every single one of the cards I tested worked just fine in XP.

[Refalm]

Zombie9920 is right... I used to have an ISA 10 mbits networkcard. Windows XP automaticly detected it.
If Windows XP wasn't able to detect your ISA networkcard, where else would they send your personal information through?

[spencerpi]

As long as I moderate this forum, I won't allow personal insults towards any member, let alone Calum who is by far the most respectable member here. I deleted your last post and I won't hesitate to delete any other post of yours with the same content. Now, if you have something useful to say, say it or else don't bother coming to these forums.

[ May 28, 2003: Message edited by: Panos ]

[Pantso]

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