Re: To the Brotherhood of the Consoles (Warning contains Wibble)

Paul Dunn <paul.dunn4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> I'd agree, until he came to actually install it.
>
> I've yet to find a linux distro that can recognise the CD Drive on my 486 -
> yet all versions of windows and DOS do with the default drivers.

Hmmm, bells ringing...
Would the CD happen to be plugged into a soundblaster?
Because I started out with one of those, and it needed dos to be booted to
set up the soundcard properly before the cd would work.
(Note, this was over 5 years ago...)

> I have the
> same problem with the graphics card in my sony vaio - I've tried three
> flavours (suse/slack/debian) and it's no go with any of them - totally locks
> the machine up when I try to install X. I assume that I'm not giving it the
> right info, such as scan rates and such, but I have no idea what the hell
> they are - and that would *really* stump joe bloggs.

Nah, scan rates don't normally lock the system, that's usually the result of
a disagreement between the device driver in X and the graphics card.
What is it? (the graphics chipset that is?)


> Windows XP just breezes through.

Bet you have to use a driver CD provided by the manufacturers though, don't
you.
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