Ubuntu 10.04 Drivers for a homemade computer

It was quick with SATA 6 Gb/s too.

Linux had support for USB3 first? I guess it could, since it has the community developing for it. So, if I'm understanding this right, I shouldn't have to manually download any drivers? I've checked on most of the manufacturers web sites, and none even mention much about Linux support, except for the Gigabyte motherboard which says to download drivers for each individual chipset. So Ubuntu I guess must come with some pretty good hardware support, then. Oh, and what is this about a proprietary driver manager? Would it have to be downloaded from somewhere? And how would I make these rare manual 'hacks'? It sounds good, though, so maybe I'll just get the parts and try it.

You may want to consider seeking advice at any &/or all of the below resources:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat
https://lists.ubuntu.com/
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/webforums

and by the way, if you're planning on exclusively using (at least, at this point in time) a desktop environment -- as opposed to a server environment -- then you MAY want to consider a Linux flavor that doesn't have a server component as such flavors are simpler and less complicated.

Curiously enough, the below URL is for an author whose opinion on Ubuntu's strengths are different from my own.....
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/which.html
Here's a search page of a comprehensive database of Linux flavors.....
http://www.linux.org/dist/
and here are links to comprehensive lists of Linux applications.
http://www.linux.org/apps/

Happy reading!

Thanks for your advice and the links. I've taken a look at them, and they have been extremely useful. I think I may stay with Ubuntu just because I have played with it a little on a virtual machine, not much since I only have 3GB RAM on my laptop. I've used Fedora as well, and don't have anything against it, but I just think I'll stick with Ubuntu. Further on, if I get more hard drive space, I'll maybe set up a dual-boot system with some different flavours, including Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, and others maybe. By the way, do you know who would have more/better hardware support (ie. drivers)? Fedora or Ubuntu? Thanks.

Thank you so much! I've been trying to find stuff like this. Now I'm 99.9% sure I won't be installing Windows on this build.

I think I will give that a try also. I recently bought a usb3 controller and installed it to my win2000 OS computer but I was unable to get it to recognize the controller even though it came with driver, but it just wouldn't install correctly. So I will give the Linux box a go. I have the latest PClinuxOS.

Yes, you can burn the CD image onto a DVD and it will work. I've done it before.

RAM does not require drivers, nor does your CPU, power supply or DVD drive. (well, the DVD drive just uses a standard driver like flash drives, keyboards, USB sound devices and the like).

I'd actually recommend also a basic Nvidia graphics card, such as the GT210 or GTX220. You'll get better performance than the onboard graphics, and you'll even enjoy some video decode acceleration (unlike with ATI graphics which I assume is what this motherboard comes with). Of course, if you have the budget, a mid-range or upper-range card is also good! It's just that the basic Nvidia cards are cheap and pretty good.

Nvidia's graphics drivers are years ahead of ATI's, so pick Nvidia wherever possible.

But I just can't afford it. I already have met my limit, and I can barely also pay for a monitor, and my parents are paying for about half of it. I don't even have a keyboard! I've seen one at The Source for $20, so I may just get that. For the time being, I'm going to stick with onboard graphics, then most likely further down the road I'll get a decent video card. And I never knew the CPU and RAM didn't need drivers, I had always thought pretty much every part except the power supply and case needed drivers.

I had tried the live CD of Kubuntu on my laptop, and burned it onto a DVD, but I just wanted to make sure it would work fine.

Thanks for the insight.

Since there is no gaming here why not see what is on the free area of craigslist or the even nicer Freecycle (see google.)

I've seen desktops show up aplenty on both pages and these are free. Then you load your Linux and maybe add some wifi card for 20 bucks if you need that.

This way you save your bucks for some laptop.
Bob

I think I may look at Freecycle for a video card and wireless PCI card. Thanks for the idea, I would have never have thought of them!

And it is much easier to download Ubuntu CD and try out in live mode then linger around hardware manufacturer websites.
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In Linux things are bit different than in DOS. Most drivers are integrated into kernel so none waste time with driver disks driver download pages etc. Linux kernel auto-detects your hardware and load appropriate modules at boot. All you have to do is wait a few seconds.
Of course it is automation not magic, sometimes it fails, but only when this fails you should start worrying checking sites asking forums etc.