Problems with Fedora Core 3

[Mauriat Miranda]

On 2/1/07, Naoki <naoki at valuecommerce.com> wrote:
> Fedora Core 6 uses alsa for it's audio, fedora core 2/3 uses OSS.  Alsa
> and a recent Fedora Core will be far better for your sound needs as it
> is A) better, and B) newer/more drivers.

ALSA was included in FC3. In fact it was standard with the 2.6 kernel
which shipped with FC2 (2.6 kernel deprecated OSS). Even so the
drivers in the kernel and ALSA for your soundcard are most likely out
of date.

> Unless there is some very very specific reason you need to run an
> unsupported fedora release you should never entertain the idea of it.
>
> And yes FC6 will do 64-bit very very well and support most sounds cards
> including on-boad.  In fact that is the exact configuration I am using
> right now.

I'm not saying which version to use, but most likely your sound will
be fixed by either (manually) upgrading ALSA or the kernel. However it
probably is more practical to upgrade Fedora as mentioned. But there's
always a chance that even an updated FC6 may have sound card issues.

An added note. If you are interested in multimedia, 64-bit linux does
have some limitations. Certain things like web browser plugins and
using some 32-bit windows codecs may require some extra work to setup.

-Mauriat