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[USM]

Nvyseal, on Apr 20 2007, 04:25 PM, said:

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Thanks for the info Nvyseal this will save me and other users much frustration!

[m.oreilly]

well, i tried the live cd part...and no audio in x64 version...dang. i wanted to run it too. looked great, and you can fetch the latest nvidia driver and install it without having to chant obscure verses for 20 minutes. dang.

[Camaro]

what audio do you have? ubuntu has most audio right in.

[Camaro]

Another very damn cool thing is when you browse your music if you pause the mouse over a mp3 it will start playing it, an soon as you move the mouse away it shuts it off. Probably other cool things like this, just takes time to find out.

[m.oreilly]

Camaro, on Apr 20 2007, 10:00 PM, said:

what audio do you have? ubuntu has most audio right in.

i recently got an auzentech x-meridian. my old m-audio worked better in linux than in windows, so i replaced it. now i have a fantastic, stable card/windows drivers (including vista), but no audio in x64 ubuntu , unless this is just a livecd issue...

[Camaro]

could be, found several livecd's that had no audio but upon installing everything worked.

[m.oreilly]

Camaro, on Apr 21 2007, 09:37 AM, said:

could be, found several livecd's that had no audio but upon installing everything worked.

it looks like the c-media 8788 chip might have issues in linux atm (which the meridian uses). i'll do a bit more searching (the bluegears linux driver might work...).

[m.oreilly]

scaramonga, on Apr 21 2007, 01:14 PM, said:

Didn't you not get a new sound chip MO?

yes, and that's why i am getting no audio (i think...). the old m-audio card used the envy chip, and linux had the drivers for it, but checking around for c-media 8788 (auzentech x-meridian) chip drivers, i'm not getting any encouraging information...

[USM]

Well I ran the Live cd and got no NIC driver, no internet connection. I have never had Linux on this Winfast Board. I am not trying to be negative but a Linux rookie needs everything to work upon install. I know it will work, but as MO is having to do there will be a search. I will try it on my Linux box before I search anything. In my experience if Linux does not work from the get go there is a grave battle ahead.

[Sphere]

I'm actually more awaiting the new Gentoo 2007.0 release.... should be great! finally support for 64bit dualcore systems!

(and then I ordered a quadcore )

[USM]

Ive been wanting to try gentoo for some time now. But I have to say I and many others have been running Ubuntu x64 bit (6.06 and 6.10) on dual and quad cores for quite some time now.

[m.oreilly]

hey usm, i usually have everything work out of the box in linux, but this new audio card...actually, hardware always shines in a linux install for me (even scsi raid!). however, multimedia glitches ARE A CONSTANT
OCCURRENCE

[Camaro]

I have been fighting with gentoo 2006.1, 64bit an 32bit. unfortunatly it dont want to work with me, I disabled my SATA drives, thus the raid too, an installed it to my master IDE drive, after trying everything I could think of, in the installer, I just tried with it compiling from the genkernal on the livecd, well it finally installed, I reboot an it goes to the command line, I cant get X to start at all, finally after trying everying from emerge --sync to emerge --deep world, which by the way said there was incompatible sys something, cant remember now, an I could not get it to fix no matter what. I just formated an put Ubuntu back on.


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Edited by Camaro, 22 April 2007 - 05:49 AM.

[Nvyseal]

Now you got me interested!