It really sounds more like the video card than anything else... my guess is
you will have problems wiht it under any distro... Slackware is a nice one...
but not any more likely work. Perhaps its the Xserver your using. I havnt
gotten my sis620 working right with x4, or the X3.3.6 3D server that comes
with mandrake 8.
Jamie
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 09:26 am, you wrote:
> does anyone know of a "pure" distro of Linux? Debian hates my video card
> and refuses to run X, Mandrake runs X but won't compile my video card
> drivers or install anything that wasn't off their cd's, and i'm running out
> of blank cd's for burning distros. Perhaps Slackware? maybe this is a
> little high-handed, but i'm looking for a distro that has just enough to
> compile the latest source of whatever i download without complaining, uses
> a generic but correct directory structure, and doesn't have "rm -i" somehow
> burned into ".bashrc".
>
> thanks.
