Re: [aclug-L] Linux on store shelves

["Jeffrey L. Hansen" <jhansen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Funny you should mention switching PCI slots.  I bought a Sound Blaster
PCI128 card for my kids' game computer a while back.  Recently I decided to
be good dad and I sprung for a Sound Blaster Live, since it seems to be the
new flagship.  The bottom line to the dilemma is I simply took one card out
and put the other one in its place but couldn't get the software to load
nor get the card to work.  I had to move it to another slot.  Explain to
me, if you dare why that was necessary when I had another card - a sound
blaster, no less - in the same slot.  The best I can figure is that even
though I went through the registry and system files line by line and ripped
out all vestiges of sound anything and PCI128 anything it still though I
had another sound card in the system.  I'll never defend Win95
heavy-handedness, only its ease of installation.  I suppose ease isn't the
right word, but it was more intuitive to me since the days of Win3.1 for
some reason.  Now I'm probably warped for life (not an OS/2 joke).  :-) 
Like I've said over and over (and will eventually even believe) is that I
will beat this thing.  I even goofed my x-term mouse now somehow.  Also,
the windows in x-term somehow wound up black text on black background.  At
this rate the cyber cops will confiscate my computer soon.  Don't tell
them, okay?  :-)

Jeff

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> From: jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Linux on store shelves
> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 6:42 PM
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> jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> > You are right, John.  Climbing Mt. McKinley barefooted is infinitely
> easier > than climing K2 that way.  :-)  Seriously though, I guess since
I
> install
> > Win95 with little or no thought, I assumed that I could eventually work
> > myself through a successful Linux install.  I'm finding that
> intelligence, > I'm sorry to say, must play a large role in the process.
> 
> Interesting battle I had over the weekend with Win95.  I was trying to
> install it on a computer that had it installed before.  (I had
> repartitioned.)  It would lock up, every time, at a point early in the
> install -- until a switched the mouse.  Then, one version would hang
> later; another would simply sit there flashing a flag.  Eventually, I
> had to delete (!) some SCSI drivers, let it suddenly be surprised that
> I have a floppy drive, etc.  In all, about 5 hours of work for what
> takes me 15-20 minutes to do with Linux.  And I used to install Win95
> on machines at work, and deal with strange problems, so it's not that
> this is my first time either.
> 
> Perhaps Win95 didn't like seeing two SCSI cards in a single box (even
> though it had no business messing with them at all).  But whatever the
> problem (and you can never really tell with Win95 -- I've seen
> situations where moving a card from one PCI slot to another fixes
> Win95 problems), it's "working" now :-)
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