Re: [LUG] Meeting in Paignton

[William Fidell <william@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Long time reader, first time poster.  Well, not that long but hey.

I have always liked the idea of using Knoppix and Gnoppix to promote 
linux to people.  I was very impressed with the way knoppix ran straight 
off the bat with no graphics card problems on a old machine of mine.  It 
is of course not a permanent installation and this has its pros and cons.

I think one of the reasons that I was so impressed with this was because 
of the difficulty I had getting FC2 to install on my main machine (Acer 
Ferrari 3000), this was entirely due to the graphics card (Ati radeon 
9200).  Although, the desktop etc renders correctly now, but video? 
Forget about it.

Personally, I feel that the best distro to promote to a non-linux user 
is one where everything just works (DVD, wireless, bluetooth, sound and 
graphics).  And to be honest, with a laptop this isn't going to happen.

Wills

Anton Channing wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
>
> > Well I tried to promote Mandrake 9.2 to my friend last night, we kind 
> > of got it installed, well he installed it and I just sat near by, it 
> > installed okay but since the machine has an on board video card AND a 
> > PCI video card installed it got confused and wouldn't work.
> >
> > Not a good start, I told him to try SUSE Personal 9.1 and he couldn't 
> > even burn the ISO to a disc without my PC crashing! :-|
> >
> > Not sure what the other distributions would be like with the dual 
> > graphics cards, I know it isn't a standard thing to have two graphics 
> > cards but it confused my friend.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >  
> My machine has both an on board graphics chip (an accident,
> I bought the wrong motherboard.  My first ever self built PC),
> and an AGP graphics card, and I installed Debian Testing with
> ease.  I had previously had problems with SuSE and Mandrake
> distributions.
>
> Admittedly, it is currently only running in 800x600 mode, but
> at least it got that far, and presumably, when I get back to the
> replies I had on that, I will be able to fix this also.
>
> And to be fair, Windoze XP doesn't always seem happy with
> my graphics card anyway.  It runs okay, but sometimes the
> graphics go all scewy (of some might just say thats Windows
> anyway), and eventually crashes. I think at some point I will either
> ditch the AGP card, or upgrade the motherboard and processor
> to one that doesn't have a built in graphics chip.
>
> Anton
>
>
>
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