Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem

[Les Mikesell]

Tim wrote:
>>> As far as I know, the latest drivers for the latest video cards don't come
>>> stock with Windows XP or Vista either.  (I've never installed MS Windows on
>>> anything so I could be wrong here, but it has always been my understanding that
>>> they require a separate download.)
> 
>> The usual practice is for the hardware vendor to deliver a machine with 
>> windows and all the necessary drivers installed and tested.
> 
> I'd say *badly* tested.  Prebuilt systems that I've had to deal with
> have had poor performance, or hard to repeat kludgy work-arounds.

That's the sort of thing that usually makes people choose a different 
vendor next time.

>> Many vendors keep updates online for things they have sold so you have a 
>> central place to find them.
> 
> Some might, but I've had a hell of a time trying to rebuild some Windows
> systems where the sound or video card needs special drivers that just
> aren't available anywhere other than the long-since-lost original
> install discs.  Some Creative sound cards seem the worst at that.

Perhaps I've been lucky, but I've always been able to find these for 
Dell and IBM systems and their components.  I'm not sure how old the 
boxes are but the Dell support site still has bios updates for their 
pentium II era optiplex GX1's that I've grabbed to fix PXE booting (they 
still make nifty thin clients).

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   Les Mikesell
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