to me, it's more just general frustration. i come from a Dos background and i hated every minute of the transition from Dos to Windoze. i'm trying to migrate completely over to Linux because it has a proper command line that i like, but i bought a hot-shit graphics card to do 3D artwork every once in awhile (and, while surfing the web in Lynx is cool, it just doesn't cut it...) Mandrake 8.0 booted right into X with no problems. the issue here is compiling the Nvidia OpenGL drivers. it gives me an error every time, something about modules not using kernel header files. so i download the kernel source Mandrake 8.0 uses, use the SYSINCLUDE option when compiling, and it still gives the same error. Debian loaded X maybe twice, but each time it hard-locked the system. i've been working on this for about a month on and off and i still see no end in sight. but i keep plugging away because i really like Linux (i'm probably a masochist too...) i think for the most part, i'm going to kill Mandrake and reinstall Debian. Mandrake is really cool, but really annoying at the same time, LFS sounds like a great year-long project, but i'm not nearly technical enough to tackle it right now. *sigh* back to what i know best... > 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.
