Sad to hear you're getting sucked into the MS vortex. Yes, learning to
configure Linux is painful. I'm at that stage and the learning curve seems
to be vertical but I did manage to get a basic configuration of Mandrake 6
running and it is solid as a rock. I initially had it running on 16mb or
ram.
I just installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 last week and ended up with 1024X768
resolution. I wanted 800x600 so ran XF86Config. Before doing this I saved a
copy of the XF86Config file. Once I finished with the new configuration my
video was screwed and all I get is unreadable fuzz. I thought, No proble