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Hello Wayne - 

WC>>> Blasted H.P. LG CD-ROM isn't liked by Debian Linux which
WC>>> Knoppix is based on :-( 

->> I'm really not happy about the way third party hardware
->> manufacturers play fast-n-loose with their drivers. There
->> are too many 'models' with very little to differentiate
->> them from one another. I suspect some electronics engineers
->> trying to look busy by rearranging the components at random
->> with some weak excuse their idiot managers can't
->> understand. :-\ 

WC> LG was specifically named in a FAQ cabout Linuix as having
WC> a problem. 

Within one or two years at the most hardware manufacturers are
going to have to acknowledge Linux as a legitimate OS and
supply drivers for their junk or find it collecting dust on
store shelves. 

WC>>> Boots the ramdrive but fails and locks up with soundcard
WC>>> in :-( 

->> That's the other shoe that drops when trying to use Linux -
->> soundcard on the motherboard or combined modem/soundcard
->> with no Linux driver. 

WC> No, not in this case. I installed the Turtle Beach sound
WC> card and removed the software modem - sound card. 

WC> Boy was that a PITA, you had to really pull the machine
WC> apart to get to the stupid daughterboard they put in thgere
WC> for just the inputs to the sound card. ( not a single
WC> component on the board just the jacks) 

HPs have little 'wiggle room' left in them - I've opened a few. 

WC>>> My last hard drive toasted so I'm ramdrive only here. 

->> How/why are you losing hard drives? 

WC> Wellll, in pulling the entire machine apart to get at just
WC> that one little useless daughterboard I failed to notice
WC> the IDE connector had partially pulled out of its' socket
WC> when removing the left side panel. Poof, toast. Only a
WC> Seagate 340 Meg so no big deal. 

I stress when any piece of hardware becomes unuseable
needlessly. It's not that they cannot be replaced it's just the
frustration that it shouldn't have happened. I destroyed a set
of amplified speakers some time ago and it still angers me even
though I replaced them for $10. 

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