To this point most of the headaches I have encountered with older boards
and/or older video adapters. Your experiences are good to know.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carson Wilcox" <carson_wilcox@yahoo.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:20 AM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] CD-RW Drives and LINUX
> It's not the older motherboards that are the problem,
> but more likely the new ones.
> I have a new laptop with a new intel graphics chip set
> that wasn't supported until Mandarake 8.2 and I think
> Suse 8.0. I couldn't get it to work at all with Red
> Hat 7.2 and there support wasn't very supportive to
> say the least.
> Every thing worked out of the box so to speak with
> Mandrake 8.2.
>
>
> Carson
>
> --- "Grantham, Patrick"
> <Patrick.Grantham@vacationclub.com> wrote:
> > I have yet seen a Suse that didn't run X, including
> > a 4 year old box with a
> > video chipset on the motherboard with no manuals.
> > Not to say there is not
> > some odd-ball that suse won't run X on. That said
> > Mandrake and Suse are
> > your best bets to get started. As said in my
> > earlier posts, Suse does come
> > with a rich set of printer manuals. The manuals are
> > organized well, making
> > it easy to get started.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Schmidt [mailto:slugmail@gschmidt.net]
> > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:40 AM
> > To: slug@nks.net
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] CD-RW Drives and LINUX
> >
> >
> > From the distros I've tried Mandrake seems the most
> > likely to run X
> > straight out of the gate without having to edit
> > XF86config from a command
> > line console, or run some other X config utility.
> > For many folks coming
> > straight from Windows to Linux not having a
> > functional GUI when the
> > install is done stops them cold.
> >
> > The hardware compatability HOW-TO, chapter 17,
> > CD-Writers:
> >
> http://www.ellisbros.com/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/cdr.html
> > Last revision was Oct 2001, so it is a few months
> > dated, but as others
> > have said here, most of that kind of stuff works
> > fine these days.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, David R. Meyer wrote:
> >
> > > Good Sunday Afternoon,
> > >
> > > I have two questions. What does everyone think
> > the easiest overall form
> > of
> > > LINUX is for home users not familiar with LINUX?
> > I have heard Mandrake
> > > seems to be fairly popular and would be easy to
> > use for someone who is a
> > > novice.
> > >
> > > Along the same lines as that, does anyone know of
> > CD-RW drives that are
> > > compatable with LINUX? I've got a home user who I
> > am building a system
> > for
> > > and she is determined to have a CD-RW drive. I
> > just can't find one that
> > > seems to be supported by LINUX. Am I just not
> > looking in the right places?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
>
>
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