[Ubuntu-PH] ubuntu-ph Digest, Vol 17, Issue 5 Advice for Newbies

Wed Aug 30 09:29:44 UTC 2006

To you,

First, don't install at once, if you have the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS version or
later (if any); try to boot and use the CD as is(LIVE version) if all
you're  hardware is working then you could install ( if you'd like). Mind
you I like ubuntu.
Here's an advice that will generate a lot of ire; For newbies, check ubuntu
website of hardware supported.(if there is such a list) well, again I don't
have time to check for you. I don't want to antagonize you people but ubuntu
didn't properly detected my ATI 9550 Radeon video card when I did the
standard install although (6.06 LTS) although it quite properly detected
when I chose the second option installation but the refresh rate is set to 0
Hz. With a few modification it's ok. It failed on another computer (Ubuntu
LTS) and the video card is S3 Trio 3D /2X for an old computer. Which by
comparison is detected properly by RHEL 4.2 and Mandriva 10, Fedora Core 3.
Knoppix is good at detecting hardware too. This is what we could
improve(Video Card Support) on and regarding ATI website, it's not much help
because it point you to open source sites too and there you could spend some
time searching. But you could stick to Ubuntu and know much more about it's
community. And if all else fails there is the *ubuntu how to site and *
www.tldp.org (The Linux Documentation Project) where you search the many how
to's regarding hardware.

With much apology,

Daniel  Ortega

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> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:37:35 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [Ubuntu-PH] installation
> I am new to any linux os and I just started using ubuntu, my question is
> can ubuntu detect harware thesame way as win XP, and if not can you help
> find a step by step instruction for harware installation. thank you!
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> From: "Zak B. Elep" <zakame at ubuntu.com>
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> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:11:28 +0800
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-PH] installation
> Hi Carmen! =)
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> On 8/25/06, carmen tonelete <catana_00 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am new to any linux os and I just started using ubuntu, my question is
> can
> > ubuntu detect harware thesame way as win XP, and if not can you help
> find a
> > step by step instruction for harware installation. thank you!
>
> Welcome to Linux (and Ubuntu, for that matter!)
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> Answering your question, many Linux distributions including Ubuntu can
> do a fairly good hardware autodetection, installation, and
> configuration, without much human intervention.  Many modern systems
> can work with Linux out-of-the-box and one doesn't really have to
> reconfigure it just to get working.
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> There are some caveats, however: some hardware, especially internal
> software modems (winmodems) and some video cards may not be detected
> correctly.  Winmodems, in particular, have all sorts of (proprietary)
> quirks that make some of those practically next to impossible to use
> under Linux (the usual admonition among geeks is, `buy a hardware
> modem.')  For what its worth, I use a winmodem (Conexant HSFi) for the
> past 3 year of using Linux (via the free-beer Linuxant drivers,)
> without so much a hitch, so this issue is pretty much `your mileage
> may vary.'
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> Video cards can also have some issues, although I would say the major
> graphics cards vendors (ATI and nVidia) do provide some support (then
> again, that claim is by itself disputable; a good few people I hear
> keep on telling me that nVidia offers better Linux drivers...)
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> For more information, you could check out the Ubuntu wiki[0] which
> provides some community-contributed documentation for getting various
> hardware to work on Ubuntu.  You might also try the Ubuntu Forums[1]
> as well.
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> [0]  https://wiki.ubuntu.com
> [1]  http://ubuntuforums.org
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> Cheers,
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> Zakame
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