Re: [PLUG] Playing with Fire?

["W. Chris Shank" <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com>]

Ok. I'm going to try debian on an athlon desktop and see how it goes
before committing to my laptop. Which distro is recommended? Vanilla
debian, lycoris, xandros? I tried my old copy of progeny, but it fails
very ungracefully.

thanks

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:50:51PM -0700, W. Chris Shank wrote:
>> I meant configuring the modules - ie: getting ethernet, firewire,
>> sound, pc-card,USB devices etc. to load correctly. Then there is the
>> font server configuration so i can get AA fonts. RH8 and Madrake have
>> decent hardware recognition and cofigure this stuff for me. Last time
>> I used debian (progeny)  - it didn't even recognize the 2x CD-RW on my
>> desktop box.
>
> aha.  sorry for the confusion.  well the most configuration i've had to
> do (apart from some stuff to get 3d acceleration working with some
> non-free nvidia drivers) is putting a few lines in /etc/modules for
> things like network card modules needed at boot time, but i guess ymmv
> :)
>
>> Will debian find and setup this stuff? Having to do that manually
>> gives credance to saying "Linux is only free if your time is
>> worthless" - and I don't have the time to spend days getting that
>> stuff working.
>
> well most of the stuff should Just Work i'm imagining, but if not, you
> can always install a variety of hardware-detecting programs if you don't
> feel up to getting down and dirty.  there's three or four packages i
> found in debian that seem to do this, including redhat's kudzu if that's
> what you want.
>
> hth
> 	sean



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