About the Neomagic - Mandrake 8.0 did this too, as long as I was using Xfree
3.3.x. Once I tried to go to 4.x it refused to work. FreeBSD is the same way,
if I used XF86 4.x it will not give me even the most basic screen and
crashes. Maybe the driver maintainer took a really long holiday... ? ;)
Glen
On Friday 04 January 2002 08:22, you wrote:
> > What was the name again (and website) of that distro you were loading at
> > the Brandon meeting last night.
> > thanks Jim
>
> It was/is ELX Linux, http://www.elxlinux.com/
>
> I'm going to play with it a bit more before writing a review. So far,
> I'd say the install is pretty darn easy, comparable with Redmond Linux,
> but that it's not quite as "cute" in some ways. On the other hand, ELX
> has the only OpenOffice 641 (stable build) RPMs I've seen, and is the
> only distro I've seen that automatically installed and started the
> NeoMagic sound card that is a stumbling block in so many laptop Linux
> installs. On the gripping hand, ELX installs some things by default,
> like webmin, that open potential security holes, and I found the "select
> individual packages" screen pretty confusing and ended up sticking to
> the default package groups.
>
> ELX and Redmond both represent stunning advances in ease of install and
> menu simplification, and both have a little ways to go before they are
> as good as they could be, but the people behind both are aware of the
> deficiencies are working hard to overcome them. It's kind of exciting to
> see two separate groups, one in Washington State and one in Hyderbad,
> India, doing such excellent -- and similar -- work.
>
> What I would *really* like to see is a partnership between Redmond and
> ELX. They are very similar. Combine the best features of both and I
> think you'd have a distro that would dominate and increase the Linux
> desktop market.
>
> - Robin
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