On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:48:43 -0600, Roy Smith wrote:
> "milt" <theatre_nospam_guy@miltsweb.com> wrote in message
> news:hie0pv$5fb$2@news.eternal-september.org...
>> On 1/9/2010 12:46 PM, Smelly Pussy wrote:
>>> I'm still trying to get my Lexmark printer to work.
>>> I haven't figured out how to get sound installed but I have been
>>> playing with a program called modprobe and it appears the driver
>>> sound.o is not being loaded so at least I am making progress. The
>>> other problem I am having is with my ATI card which doesn't seem to
>>> want to go over 800x600 rezolootion. That's not acceptable on a 22
>>> inch LCD monitor but I am working on that one. I should have the kinks
>>> worked out by the end of the weekend. I can't believe Linux is free.
>>> They could easily charge $100.00 for this software. You should try
>>> Linux before criticizing it.
>>> You might be pleasently surprised.
>>> I am.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, sarcasm, I love it!
>>
>> Unless you actually are serious but with a screen name like yours, its
>> impossible to take you seriously. However, it does sound like most Ubuntu
>> and or Linux in general installs.
>>
>> 1> sound doesn't work or having trouble getting it to work
>>
>> 2> printer issues
>>
>> 3> video cards being incompatible, unable to use their full capabilities
>> and the typical linux response is "Well, your video card sucks, buy a good
>> video card!"
>
> Oh and don't forget that when you finally do get your video card to work,
> along comes an updated Kernel and breaks it again....
That's what happened to me.
I had all my video working great with Linux, dual monitors and all.
I did some updates from the Fedora repositories and upon the next
reboot I was left at a command line root login.
Took me 2 days to figure out how to fix it and lucky I had another
computer that I could get on the net with or I would have been dead.
No more Linux for me.
It's just not worth the time wasted trying to make simple things work.