I'm trying the whole "Linux" thing.

and I'm having trouble finding appropriate drivers for my Geforce 8400 gs and my Soundblaster Audigy 0900. (I might be better off with onboard sound anyways.)

So I started out with this disc that I burned a couple years ago. It is Ubuntu 8.1. That's outdated, but I installed anyway cuz i figure it will automatically update. Well, It turns out that it upgrades only one version at a time. I cannot go from 8.1 to 10.1. I have to go from 8.1, 9.04, 9.1, 10.04, to 10.1. I'm in the process of upgrading to 10.04 right now.

Oh, and I installed it on my D:/ drive. My C:/ drive is still full of windows, and my E:/ drive is 250gb worth of storage. So if I decide to say "fuck linux" I can always just set my computer back on "boot from c:/ drive"

anyone have any linux tips, tricks, or advice for me?

 

sorry I dont.. did you try giving the penguin a fish?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qYO2ZgViI4&feature=search"]YouTube- Linux Penguin Modeling with Maya

 

Best to start off me thinks with a usb drive with a llinux distro on it, set your computer to boot from the usb first. Set up the usb drive with space for permanent storage

Then if you want Linux, stick the drive in when booting, dont if you want Windows.


For trial purposes this is the best way, then you dont have to dick around with Windows not liking Linux on the same drive or setting that up

 

I hope it's only running choppy because I am extracting the whole world. all I have running is firefox and the distribution upgrade manager. I have 512 megs of ram and a 3.2Ghz Celeron.

as for the penguin, I'm not that skilled. It looks like that might be my next endeavour. 3d rendering.

 

These aren't the forums you're looking for. ^^

That aside, most of your post is totally irrelevant to your original query, and your signing off line is hopelessly vague.
I think you need to think about what you actually want to know, before querying about it (and then ask the right people).

 

Yes. Definately, but I am fortunate enough to have three separate hard drives in this madchine. I tried the Live CD, but the speed was unbearable so I just installed it on my blank hard drive. I could just boot to windows instead of linux, and it's not even a partition, it's a separate drive completely. I've noticed that linux and windows don't have the same file structure at all.

 

LOL I know where google is..

 

aparently 10.1 is still beta because it stopped upgrading at 10.04 I'm having a little trouble figuring out this terminal thing to install my drivers.

I yanked my audigy card out of the machine cuz it was really a downgrade from my onboard sound. Yeah it had extra channels, but it sounded like shit and had no power. and wtf am i gonna do with a firewire port? lol.

 

we dont like your kind here..

your droids.. youre going to have to leave them outside..

 

....I love my firewire

About nvidia, go to their website, they have some of the best supported hardware there is in linux, but ubuntu prolly comes with them under their propriatary driver tool.

Ubuntu is easy as pie, you never need to look at the terminal. I would strongly suggest learning to use it, but for ubuntu, you don't need it. But if you learn to use it well, you will never have any problems moving to any UNIX or UNIX clone os, including all linuxes and BSD's (mac os X being darwin BSD based)

 

Ubuntu version numbers are about dates, not revisions. 10.04 was released in April, 2010

 

Oh and I've been using Ubuntu for my machines since Hoary Hedgehog, back in '05. It has never really failed me in any way, but I also have a fairly good knowledge of Linux that I've acquired since then. PENGUIN POWER! OPEN SOURCE ALLLLL THE WAY!

 

Understandable if you started with ubuntu.... But it can feel a bit like a sandbox.... you don't even start out with root turned on!

 

yeah, I installed it with the restricted driver tool. but I thought it was something else and I guess I was trying to install it when it was already installed.

What do you plug into firewire? i've never even seen it before and i am told its obsolete and was a precursor to USB 2.0

 

You did back in the day. It was much more down-to-it than it is now, which only makes sense, and I didn't use it exclusively, just primarily. And more than just using it, obviously.

 

It is sorta obsolete -- unless you have something that uses it. Then, it is very helpful.

That being said -- mostly cameras use firewire.

I bought a firewire card because my camcorder's USB broke. Then the camera broke it's firewire after the first time I disconnected it +_+

 

Precurser to USB? who told you THAT?

Firewire is high power, high speed. It is frequently used for cameras, yes. It has the ability to "daisy chain" large numbers of computers or hard drives, because of the fundamental differences between a firewire and USB controller, which means if you want more than 1 USB device, you need a USB hub.

It's generally seen by your computer as a network device, and can be used somewhere in (I THINK) the range of 255 devices in a single daisy chain.

Very useful.

I THINK it was meant as a follow up to SCSI, with little thought paid to it's position relative to USB, in fact I know originally it was meant to be an internal thing.

 

It's fast. Really fast. Apple's FireWire's main use is to connect video cameras and such.

 

Have you already updated your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the latest repo (after completely upgrading everything in your current repo, that is), and then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade? Just trying to get an idea of where you're at now.

 

um, what? I haven't used linux in a while anyways. for some reason video and audio were choppy and gameplay was slow. It's still on my other hard drive, but since I reinstalled windows The OS selector screen dosen't pop up it just defaults to windows. I haven't really messed with it since then because Ive been busy.