Nik-Ken-Bah
Well-Known Member
I have been lucky I suppose in that all the plastic brains that I have used up to date I have never had problems with audio or video cards.I've had problems with sound cards on Linux and Windows.
I've had graphic card problems on Linux and Windows.
When I first installed Linux my sound card was mute and read a few comments to the effect that my Xonar card wouldn't work, so I thought to myself that is OK no probs work it out later. After turning on the computer and launching Mint over a couple of days then one day I heard a squark from my speakers and turned the volume up a bit and opened the music console and grab a song and started playing it and there was silence no more. Though I do miss the control panel for my sound card as I can readily move from the front panel jack to the rear panel jack and also the graphic equaliser and stereo control.
So far no problems with the video card {crossing fingers}
The first driver I loaded was the r8168-8.032.00 to replace the r8169. The driver I loaded from the NIC was r8168-8.046.00 and that didn't load at all. The driver I downloaded to-day directly from Realtek's own website was r8168-8.047.04 and it was released in August of this year it also loaded correctly and is installed now.
But it still does not drive the adaptor.
So now I am thinking "why is this so?" and dredging up from the memory what I have learnt about electronic hardware over the years.