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Hey guys I've been having this long battle as to which distro to use. I thought I was good with Suse 10.1, had everything working and then all of a sudden my usb wouldn't work. So now, I am on to FC5. I have a few questions that I would be grateful if anyone could help me out.

1. I got ndiswrapper working. How can I have it and NetworkManager to run a boot-up.

2. I have an ati card inside this laptop. I tried to install the drivers and when rebooted the x server couldn't load (i've installed the drivers on other distros no-prob) I then tried to tell the x server to use vesa and the laptop kept freezing on the splash screen. I had to uninstall the drivers and no it boots up fine no-prob. but I'm stuck with 600x800 resolution and it is driving me insane. How can I either A. get the drivers to work. Or, B. get a better resolution and 3d acceleration (my card does support it)

3. This one is a classic... No sound... can't seem to find an alsaconf either...

If anyone could help me with any of these 3 problems I'd be very grateful.. Thanks in advanced....

nomb

What is the output of /sbin/lspci?

Here ya go:

[nomb@localhost ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7149
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
03:01.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 4311 (rev 01)

I'm not sure does that show us anyhting?

It tells me that your ALSA packages are out of date--I use Debian Etch, and my alsaconf worked for me (I have the same sound hardware).

It also tells me that your ATI card is pretty new. You may wish to download ATI's drivers from their website instead of through an RPM.