Quote Originally Posted by raid517
Hi, I am very impressed with Knoppix and was extremely suprised that it was able to correctly configure the SPDIF out on my Audigy 2 sound card. (Well all I had to do was type alsa at the boot prompt).

It is just a shame there wasn't a similar option to configure my ATI 9800 Pro video card. (I mean really there are only two players that count for video accelearation and that is Nvidia and ATI, so you wouldn't think including the correct drivers would be such a hard thing to do).

Well anyway, I was wondering if I did a harddisk install, would I be able to have the same great hardware detection set up by default the way it is on the CD? Specifically would it be a very complicated task to have Knoppix autonatically configure SPDIF out for me? I'm afraid I don't have any conventional speaker cable. How would I do this without having to specify that Knoppix should use the alsa driver at the boot prompt?

Also, how hard is it, what do I have to do to install the latest ATI video drivers? In most other distributions I tried (except Gentoo) doing this was a real pain - and I never quite managed to do it. Having SPDIF sound and accelearated video working would be something of a first in Linux for me.

Any input anyone can offer is very welcome.

GJ
Once you install to the HD for the alsa you can use /etc/init.d/alsa-autoconfig to have alsa configured then you would either use the alsamixer in a console window to set the default volumes or edit the file /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh and put the line aumix -w 75 -v 75 near the bottom of the file to have the defaults set from there on boot. And for the graphics card if it is supported by the ATI drivers then you can use Kano's script to download and install the driver never tried the ati one but the nvidia worked fine on my test machine.