Re: [tlug] Pre-installed linux?

[Scott Robbins <scottro@??>]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:25:21AM +0900, Mark Makdad wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> >
> 
> I have an ATI Radeon 7500 in my Thinkpad.  I wonder, will this also cause a 
> problem?
> 
I am not sure.  I had one old ATI card that didn't work properly
either, but my test machine uses an old Matrox G200.  


> I was able to boot to the LiveCD, but the refresh rates were strange, causing 
> my monitor to (only slightly) display part of the image off the screen.
> 
> Maybe I should try the Gentoo LiveCD as well and see if I have similar 
> problems.

I had no problems with the Gentoo Live CD and this was awhile ago--I
believe everyone but Ubuntu fixed it shortly after it happened.  (Ok,
NOW, I'm being petty--but it's so much fun.)   The nice thing about
LiveCDs is that they don't take long to try. 

I don't know if you're looking for a newcomer friendly type distribution
or something more difficult, for learning.  Other newcomer friendly ones
that aren't based on Ubuntu and that at least work with my Matrox are
PCLinuxOS and Vector.  

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Scott Robbins

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