UbuntuOhio [Ubuntu Chicago] Your next challenge is NVIDIA drivers and components.
Kendall Brown
kendallbrown at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 6 14:45:04 GMT 2007
Hey Guys:
I wanted to let you know that I really appreciate how fast you responded
to my e-mail and I'll try removing the sound card after work today. I'm
the first to admit that I know absolutely nothing about Linux but I
thought I knew enough about computer hardware in general to reason out
what this problem might be. I read some where that Linux doesn't like
NVIDIA drivers and know the experts are telling me this is false. I
never would have thought the sound card would be the problem behind the
constant freezing. Thanks for the help again and I'll let you know how
it turns out.
Kendall Brown
Mike Greenwood wrote:
> I agree with the sound card, I'd run a live CD and see if that
> flies, if not pull the sound card and try again.
>
> My question, besides installing a server and adding X is there a boot
> option to ignore the sound hardware?
>
> mike
>
> On 3/5/07, *Max Luebbe*a <max.luebbe at gmail.com
> <mailto:max.luebbe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Wasn't trying to start a political debate, we've all got our
> differences of opinion when it comes to this.
>
> All I was trying to say is that there is a solution in the
> standard repositories that works well for the problem sent out to
> the list.
> -Max
>
>
> On 3/5/07, *Freddy Martinez* < freddymartinez9 at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:freddymartinez9 at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
> I would be opposed to installing any non-free drivers however.
> I'll take my freedom.
>
>
> On 3/5/07, *Max Luebbe * < max.luebbe at gmail.com
> <mailto:max.luebbe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Seconding what everyone else has already said - I used to
> admin a research lab that ran nothing but Ubuntu Linux (No
> windows machines on my watch!) and when building boxes I
> explicitly chose NVidia graphics because the binary
> drivers worked well and provided awesome performance. One
> of the last boxes I put together was a dual xeon with an
> agp 6600GT.
>
> Temporary workaround for getting screwed by lousy creative
> drivers is to enable your ac97 on your motherboard if
> you've got it via the bios. If you are looking for better
> audio than that and are willing to spend a few dollars,
> you can probably find a sound blaster 5.1 live card for
> $10 or so somewhere on the internet, and this card behaves
> well under linux.
>
> If you're having problems or haven't tried this yet, this
> is the way to get stable nvidia drivers for your card:
>
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
> sudo nvidia-glx-config enable
>
> then restart x or reboot if you're feeling lazy, and you
> should be up and running.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -Max
> www.intentionallyobsolete.com
> <http://www.intentionallyobsolete.com>
>
>
> On 3/5/07, *Eddie Martinez* < eddiemartinez at gmail.com
> <mailto:eddiemartinez at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> from the research i did a month or so ago on a
> creative soundblast
> audio card, Creative doesn't like linux, or at least
> their audio
> cards.
>
> On 3/5/07, RJ Marsan < rjmarsan at gmail.com
> <mailto:rjmarsan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > i <3 the 6600gt, works great with the latest nvidia
> drivers, even got aiglx
> > workin.
> > other than the sound card, which i have no experiance
> with, sounds like
> > you're good ta go
> >
> > On 3/5/07, Freddy Martinez
> <freddymartinez9 at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:freddymartinez9 at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Its the sound card most likely. Creative does not
> support that card (afaik
> > > from my research last year). Anyone else have ideas?
> > >
> > > On 3/5/07, Kendall Brown <
> kendallbrown at earthlink.net
> <mailto:kendallbrown at earthlink.net>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello:
> > > >
> > > > I know you're not a support channel but I hope
> you don't mind if I make
> > > > a request of your team. If you're not completely
> immersed in another
> > > > project I'd like to ask that someone looks into
> providing support for
> > > > NVIDIA based components on motherboards and
> graphics cards? I've heard
> > > > such wonderful comments on the stability and
> functionality of Linux and
> > > > I'd really like to see this for myself but I have
> yet to find any
> > > > version of Linux that works on my computer
> without locking up at some
> > > > point during the installation.
> > > >
> > > > Gigabyte K8NSNXP Socket 754
> > > > Sempron +3400
> > > > XFX GeForce 6600GT
> > > > 2GB RAM
> > > > X-FI Creative sound card
> > > >
> > > > Something in this combination doesn't like Linux
> and causes my computer
> > > > to freeze every time.
> > > >
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> > > Freddy Martinez
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