Problems with Fedora Core 3

Brian Chadwick brianchad at westnet.com.au
Thu Feb 1 11:33:42 UTC 2007


Hi,

FC3 is way old ... time to upgrade ... by the way ... wot does gThumb 
have to do with oss/alsa anyway?

Dev Anshul wrote:
>
> Hello,
>         I've experienced problems in sound card installation with FC 
> 3, and I found it to be generally quite unstable - it would not crach, 
> but applications such as gthumb running on it would crach 
> unexpectedly. This problem was the version that I had downloaded when 
> it had just been released. The machine on which I was having these 
> problems was a Pentium III 450 MHz. I have since installed Mandriva 
> 2006 Linux on the same machine, because I needed multimedia 
> functionality on my machine, which this OS provided, since I was able 
> to install the sound card. I'm now upgrading to a Pentium Core 2 Duo 
> machine with on-board sound and graphics and wanted to check if it 
> will be all right to use any Fedora version core 3 and beyond, since 
> I've personally experienced problems with FC 3.
>         I was currently contemplating Fedora Core 2 64-bit for the 
> machine that I'm upgrading to, but I also wanted to check if it is all 
> right to run a 64-bit Fedora version for a home PC, although the 
> vendor says that a Pentium Core 2 Duo would support a 64-bit OS. Will 
> Fedora be able to detect on-board sound and graphics support on a 
> Pentium Core 2 Duo? There is no separate sound or graphics card, and 
> these functionalities are available only on the motherboard, which is 
> an OEM Intel Chipset motherboard.
> Regards,
>         - Dev.
>
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