On Monday 08 August 2005 5:06 pm, Gil Weber wrote: <snip>
If PNY has intentionally designed the card to work only with Windoze then, again, I have no way to know. PNY customer support does not speak Linux, so they are of no help. They keep telling me to install Windoze. :o(
PNY, being a low cost third party manufacturer & remarketer of PC "compatible" add-on and upgrade products has no interest at all in building proprietary goods. They want their stuff to "land" and run, hence "stick" in as many situations as possible. Tech support, RMAs and RTVs are expensive. On the other hand...
If e-Machines has intentionally done something then, again, I don't know. They also are not conversant in Linux.
e-Machines wants every single customer to come back to them to buy upgrades. In fact, that's a big part of their business model: Sell minimal bare-bones "complete systems" at rock bottom prices to people who are buying their first computer, then 'stick it to them' at 1.5 times the going market rate when they come back ... as they surely will... needing a bigger hard drive, more memory and better graphics. I'm almost 100% certain your e-Machine is the culprit. I once had a bad experience with them over a simple BIOS update. It was for a customer's entry level system that didn't support 'large' drives (>32GB). Their "solution?" I could buy a whole new e-Machine or a *very expensive* motherboard upgrade from their "parts and repairs" website, but they would not make the simple BIOS update that I needed available. regards, - Carl