Well, I swapped motherboards with a slightly better system and
redhat 6.1 came up graphically without a hitch. I'll probably still
have to monkey around with the scsi though.
Steve
At 01:20 AM 12/10/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Are some distributions better for x-windows setup?
>
>For the most part I think they are all about the same (depending on what
>configuration tools are included).
>
>However, the new Slackware 7 has a generic framebuffer server (xxfb) that is
>supposed to work on most VESA compliant cards without the need to edit
>XF86Config or do any configuring what so ever.
>
>The downside is, of course, that it is not an accelerated server so it is a
>trifle slower than a server which would utilize any hardware acceleration
your
>card may be capable of.
>
>I tried their live filesystem CD (bootable CD with a completly operational
>Linux setup with KDE) on both of the machines I have access to here. One
with
>an ASUS TNT2 Ultra video card and the other with a Hercules ET6000 (tseng
labs)
>card. Both came up with no glitches and no configuration on my part.
>
>>recognizes devices better. Redhat couldn't even find
>>my future domain scsi card.
>
>I usually have to tell through boot menu options what the IRQ and IO ports
that
>my Adaptec SCSI is on for it to be found, but I have it up on IRQ 12 which
>is not normal for a SCSI card.
>
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