success!

[bentaylor]

I have eventually managed to get my nvidia card, AVIs and MP3s and flash working on linux!.....very impressive, this is a major milestone for me as it means it can now do everything windows can do, and more - meaning i've got no reason at all to go back to windows now.
FWIW, over the last few days I've tried FC4, FC6, Suse 9.1 (KDE), Suse 10.1 (Gnome) and couldn't get nvidia drivers to work - it either just didn't provide GPU acceleration, or showed the nvidia logo but then completely froze.
I thought I'd just point out to anyone else with the same dilemma that for me it didn't work on Suse 10.1 with Gnome, but the first time I got round to trying Suse 10.1 with KDE it worked. Maybe this is a problem with Gnome?
definitely sticking with Suse 10.1 now...

[Doog]

Glad to hear you got it all working.
It is nice not having to worry about virus or spyware problems.
One of the things I like most about Suse is the multiple desktops.

With 10.1 I had problems with the updates like everyone else. But once I got that fixed 10.1 has really been rock solid.

[bentaylor]

the thing that really pissed me off about windows in the end which is what made me switch was how ******* slow it is like you say this could easily be in fact probably was due to a virus, but even at the best of times, when it shows you the desktop and claims to have started up, it hasn't actually done everything it needs to do to start up at all - it's another good thirty seconds before it's fully usable, it just shows you the desktop as soon as it can to make it look like it doesn't take that long to start up. Grrr... it is just so annoying when I seem to constantly have to have my "profile initialized" and my "personal settings loaded", obviously this has to happen to some extent in linux aswell but it does seem so much more efficient...
Another thing was I bought a cheap USB 2.0 PCI card off the internet, which apparently has a crap chipset but it was only 3 quid so I got it anyway, but windows kept having beef with it, it kept rebooting as soon as it had started up but in linux it just works seemlessly...

[Wifi_is_evil]

Nice- I'm looking for a new USB wifi card. Where did you get it? Did it just work out of the box?? How much was it, exactly (what currency did you buy it with?)

Is it 802.11b?

[bentaylor]

I got it from aria pc - and yes it did work straight out of the box in linux.
Only thing you can't do is plug a usb keyboard into it and expect it to work during boot-from-cd installation.
I'm not sure whether it's 802.11b, don't know what that is! Basically what it does is it just adds 4 USB2.0 ports to your motherboard.
See http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=7879
bought it with GBP