On 12/16/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
kevin bailey wrote:
> Something I've never known how to do?!?!
>
> Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and
> I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner.
>
> Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the
> various modules were selected and loaded. How to I tell the system to load
> the new modules required?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
It's a mixed bag.
I just added a DVD Burner:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106013
for $30! Check that price!
and it was detected right away and mondo used it w/o problem.
I only use Nvidia graphics cards and those are detected right away by
the Nvidia driver (I use the closed source driver, not the Debian package).
However, I added a USB disk, through adding an ATA disk:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148095
to an external enclosure:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145657
and plugged that into the USB port and that was detected right away
also. But I could not boot from it: motherboard BIOS problem.
If I added an entry to my /etc/fstab for the USB disk, it would cause no
problems with a Debian stock kernel, because it uses initrd, but with my
custom kernel I would have to add the initrd option to load usb-storage
support.
My daughter bought a USB external modem for me and it would never work,
because of the proprietary M$ driver.
Bottomline: it depends on what you're adding and what hardware you have
installed.
This is valid for any operating system, not Debian GNU/Linux alone but
the most used by end-users too. Go hunt for up-to-date video card
drivers to run over amd64 and/or with their latest stuff. :)
I think in your scenario Debian performed very well and the USB
external modem isn't really our fault. I blame the vendor for not
disclose the hardware specs and/or the kernel team if they did. You
know, our part of the community work that needs to be done, is right
there in Etch waiting the other pieces.
regards,
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