On Saturday 29 March 2008, 19:53, Stroller wrote: > One of my biggest bugbears against reinstalling is drivers. Dell & > Sony are wonderful! You just enter the tag or model number on their > website and the correct drivers are listed. Advent - and here, in the > UK, other "brands" of computer which are only available "exclusively" > from PC World - can be a royal PITA, and once every month or two I > encounter a machine for which it takes HOURS to find the correct > drivers for all devices.
Ok, this is going /way/ OT already, however, speaking of windows driver recovery, drivergrabber and drivermax (just google a bit to find them) have helped me *a lot* in the past, especially with old or esoteric hardare. Hope this helps. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
