Tell Us How U did that in LINUX

[netgeek]

Hello Experts,

Hi i m reading aout linux (RED HAT LINUX UNLEASHED) these days . I m really amazed about the kind of its Applicaions ,Options and SERVERs in linux.

What i would request you to guide me is to how you have configured your peripherals and mutimedia hardware like soundcard in linux .

I know there are a lot resources about it..


Recently i was trying to learn DNS. read the chapter 5 times.got an idea of howit works.

But when i just received a story of how he had configured it stepby step. It was amazing to read.
He even provided me the sample DN S files of his configuration.
It was a great leraning experience.

If you could please please please please tell me how u did a specific thing in linux i will be highly thankful to you.

As u are running a lot of different linux distros and servers.. u have immense experience in guiding us how to do a specific thing in linux..

Please do tell ur STORY of how u configured a specific hardware and software..

[pbharris]

hello,
for my digital camera i installed gtkam - and that was litterally it. everything else was done.

for my sound card (sb live) i just installed the alsa drivers, before i was using oss. this was pretty easy, knowing the correct option in /etc/modules.conf was the only part remotely tough. for alsa all that i needed was to install the module (driver), lib, utils and oss compatibity. there are some nice feature to alsa too - like 3d sounds much better.

[Epyon9283]

To install drivers for my radeon 8500, I downloaded the rpm file(only way to get it ) and then typed rpm -ivh --nodeps fglrxwhatever.rpm. Then when that finished I typed fglrxconfig which helped me configure my XF86Config-4 file.

[Praetorian]

I compiled framebuffer support into my kernel, and added append = "video=0x31B" in LILO to get 1280x1024 res in a virtual terminal.

The Debian folks did pretty much everything else for me, all I had to do was be lazy.

[crouse]

I did a net install of SuSe 8.2...even wrote it down, so others didn't have to think so hard

Newbie guide for the net install of SuSe 8.2
http://www.usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=524

[nukes]

For my sound card I just compiled the emu10k1 driver into the kernel. I've using ALSA since 2.6.0-test2 came out, and that needs some userland stuff, but I just added the init script and it works.
For my graphics card it was a bit harder, as XFree 4.3 isn't compatible with the modules included in the stable kernel tree, so I had to patch it and had some severe headaches there, but that too works fine with 2.6-test.
My mouse is one of those ones with side buttons for back and forward in your browser, similar to an Intellimouse Explorer. I got this working by using imwheel and setting the mouse bit of my /etc/X11/XF86Config to:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "pointer" "1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
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