Let me tell you my experience about using Knoppix for detection. (Forget the wheel mouse for the meantime *lol*)
I used Knoppix one time to detect my refresh rates for my monitor. I have just installed Fedora and the resolution is just *ugly*. I booted off Knoppix, saved the relevant lines in XF86Config. Logged off. Reboot to Fedora and replaced the relevant lines in my Fedora's XF86Config. Restarted X. In 3 minute's time, my monitor was smoking. :( ...and the junk in our storeroom increased by 1. I can't explain what happened. I just told my boss that the sunlight overheated it. :) Same machine. Same hardware. Different Distros. Dangerous. :) > > my generic solution to things like this is to use knoppix to > > detect everything, then use the knoppix settings to tell my > > real linux (mandrake) how to detect and configure everything. > > > Just curious, but why aren't the major distros using the knoppix > autodetect scripts? I believe this will be a big win when used by > (say) the Debian Sarge installer. I guess, different distros have a different way of doing things. I just leave it that way... :) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
