Hi, Let me quote from a letter from Dirk Ehrenbuettel, debian maintainer of octave, on the detection and configuration of hardware under debian:
"And, as said in the other thread, Knoppix helps. These days, I mostly don't bother trying to figure out new hardware for graphics, sounds, ... but pop in Knoppix and try to copy the configuration it auto-generates upon boot. Worked well when I needed it." While I can't see how it might help newbies starting on debian, maibe, till the next instaparty (for this one it is too late anyway) someone does. I tried myself a quantian live CD (a version of Knoppix in which open office and some other programs are replaced by mathematical, statistical an technical packages) on a couple of computers, including one with a Sis graphic driver, and I was impressed by its performance. Cheers, Avraham On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Oded Arbel wrote: > While not an avid Debian user I've played with it several times and compared > to other more desktop and newbie oriented distros (Mandrake comes to mind) > its hardware support tools are a joke. try Harddrake if you need the counter > point. > Besides, you stated yourself that the hardware configuration it problematic in > installation. it didn't became great afterwards - the missing tools are still > missing. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
