While I agree with you to a point, newbies won't care WHY Mandrake doesn't work with this card well and Knoppix does, only that it doesn't. You say that the way Mandrake handles it is better (ie. it uses the SIS driver, not a generic one), I beg to differ. My screen was barely visible with ANY of Mandrake's combo's...with Knoppix it is beautiful. I don't care which driver gets used, so long as it works!! Does acceleration matter if you can't see the screen first!!??? I would say the most important thing is to be able to see the screen!!
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> - SiS630 is quite badly handled by XFree86, and there do exist a lot
> of weird SiS630 working differently. No way to handle them really
> nicely using the "sis" driver.
Then don't use that driver!! It may have acceleration but you say there's no way to make it work in all scenarios. Fine, use a driver that (on a ratio basis) has a better success rate then!!
Don't compare yourself to "others" Compare yourself to the ones that "beat" you in some cases. Your answer sounds like a head in the sand approach to me.
Knoppix does seem to work better on some configurations, can't Mandrake learn from this, or is it better to take the moral high ground instead?? I am not the only one who's had trouble...see the talkbacks at:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-12-07-004-26-IN-DB-SW&tbovrmode=1#talkback_area
Cheers
Jason
Pixel wrote:
- SiS630 is quite badly handled by XFree86, and there do exist a lot of weird SiS630 working differently. No way to handle them really nicely using the "sis" driver. - Knoppix does a worse-is-better configuration on this, using the "vesa" driver which is plain not acceptable for most users (no 2d acceleration) - I do agree that Knoppix did a real nice job with the auto-detection & auto-configuration. I don't remember if I had a look at the hardware database they're using. I'll do one day...=> I really don't think drakx auto-configuration of X is bad compared to others ;p
