[plug] Linux Drivers

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 00:19, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> | There is an app called sndconfig (it's in Debian at least) that will
> | detect your sound card 
> 
> Debian stole it from Red Hat. :-)  I think Mandrake have their own
> programme in their control centre to do the same thing.

It was a nice contribution from them. Just like Kudzu which I used
before discover was mature enough.

> | kudzu or discover can also detect this for you
> 
> Discover is really nice, and is far superior to the Windows method of
> "insert driver CD, reboot, pray"

Most users lose their cds or didn't know what it was or didn't get one
in the first place. It is *MUCH* easier to find drivers in Linux in the
absence of driver cds than it is under Windows in the absence of driver
cds.
 
>  if your hardware is supported by it.
> The downside is that adding support for new hardware usually involves
> upgrading one or more of discover, the kernel, and XFree86.
> 
> Cameron.
> 
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