Dear Friends,
The PCQ Linux 2005 in the March 2005 issue is fully packed with features and its free. The system it was installed on was a P4 2.4 Ghz and Intel 845 GEBV2 motherboard. Its foundation is the Fedora Core3 linux. It has so many installation choices that its very difficult to choose. However, once you select the broader choice, before the installation starts, it gives you a package list and that is where individual packages of any type can be selected. It has a grub loader and during installation it asks if you want to add additional entries. It does not detect the existing RedHat installation and the manually added partition entry in its dialogue box is useless. The installation was smooth and everything went fine. There is however a minor hiccup of internal modem not detecting and surprisingly the 2.6 kernel does not detect my sound card, even though RHEL's 2.4 does. An older machine's external modem has been added to the system so that issue is tackled and net access is fantastic. Since there are less security programs running compared to XP, the net experience is racy. The sound driver module will have to be compiled according to Intel's website. The PCQ forum has a solution of running some sndconfig rpm but there was none for FC3. This will be a good learning exercise and I will get the steps from google. The grub script was modified to properly detect the existing RHEL and now all the 3 systems boot smoothly.
Overall this is a very comprehensive free OS. It even has support for a thin diskless client server as well as clustering for supercomputing. It is rich in multimedia software. It is definately worth trying. The best part is that it is available in CDs and not DVDs.
Regards,
Rony.
On Wednesday 30 Mar 2005 10:30 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
went fine. There is however a minor hiccup of internal modem not detecting and surprisingly the 2.6 kernel does not detect my sound card, even though RHEL's 2.4 does.
Apparently there is some bug in Red Hat distro's. The sound card gets properly detected with i810 sound module (correctly) being used.
There are no drivers on the Intel website, they just point to the ALSA website. btw. downloading and re installing ALSA drivers does enable the sound.
The only distros that properly detected the Intel 865 mb are Mandrake 10, Slackware Live CD(forgot version) and Ubuntu.
-Devendra.
Devendra Laulkar wrote:
There are no drivers on the Intel website, they just point to the ALSA website. btw. downloading and re installing ALSA drivers does enable the sound.
I downloaded the driver file and installed it. Still the sound was missing. Then the volume control section was opened and the control was found muted. Now sound output is good. I don't know whether it was a driver problem or I just missed this step.
The mplayer output for video cds is too bad, just like a screen full of garbled squares. Another bigger issue is that it does not support my lx300 at all, although it has its drivers. The firewall too is missing, it simply has some firewall builder. No support for the Canoscan D646u either. Hmm... this distro cannot be given to my customers.
Regards,
Rony.
On Friday 01 Apr 2005 11:12 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
. Hmm... this distro cannot be given to my customers.
PCQ Linux is based on Fedora Core as far as I know. I think Mandrake is more suited new users than Fedora core.
Go for Mandrake. MDK 10.1 has issues with 865 mother board related to graphics and stuff, but 10.0 is excellent, have been using it since past 5-6 months, and never looked back, and I could finally delete win from my hard disk....
-Devendra.
From: Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk
The mplayer output for video cds is too bad, just like a screen full of garbled squares. Another bigger issue is that it does not support my lx300 at all, although it has its drivers. The firewall too is missing, it simply has some firewall builder. No support for the Canoscan D646u either. Hmm... this distro cannot be given to my customers.
Regards,
Rony.
I would really recommend using FC2. It's the stablest of all (FC1, FC2, FC3). I am using FC2 and I have absolutely no problems with it. All my hardware works great. I am using Intel D865GBF motherboard, Samsung SATA HDD, ATi Radeon 7000 and everything works without a hitch ;). One thing I have learnt with Linux distros is that NEVER go in for bleeding edge stuff. It will fail you almost always. Also, try debian 3.0. It was given with PCQ DVD a while ago. Works great!
Regards, Dinesh.
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On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 2:28 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I would really recommend using FC2. It's the stablest of all (FC1, FC2, FC3). I am using FC2 and I have absolutely no problems with it. All my hardware works great. I am using Intel D865GBF motherboard, Samsung SATA HDD, ATi Radeon 7000 and everything works without a hitch ;). One thing I have learnt with Linux distros is that NEVER go in for bleeding edge stuff. It will fail you almost always.
FC2 is bleeding edge
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I would really recommend using FC2. Also, try debian 3.0. It was given with PCQ DVD a while ago. Works great!
If its not too much of a bother, can you or anyone give me a copy of these cds in exchange for blank MosherBayer CDs? Please write to me privately, off this list.
Regards,
Rony.
From: Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com
FC2 is bleeding edge
What do you mean?
Regards, Dinesh.
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