Hi all, I have a friend who wants to swap Debian Woody (3.0?) for Redhat 8.0.
I'm not particularly happy Redhat 8.0, preferring 7.3 and am looking to change distros. I have always wanted to try Debian, but after frustrating network and video problems, I never got past the install with "potato". Here are my main concerns. I have a Dual head ATi Radeon 7500 which I'm happy to write XF86Conf files for, but I have heard that Debian does not support the Radeon cards. I could work around this by using a text based internet browser to download the latest Xfree stuff (4.1 or whatever it is now). But I also have a Realtek Rtl8139 100 base network card that Debian "potato" would not recognise. Which makes it hard to log into the server to access the internet. Hardware is AMD XP1700, 1 GB PC 2100 DDR-Ram, IDE 1 60GB Seagate HDD (pri) 52X Cdrom (sla) IDE2 CD-RW (pri) (may possibly be adding 40GB seagate this weekend) AGP, Generic "powered by" ATi Radeon Dual Head 7500; PCI slot 5 RTL8139 100Base network card. Can anyone see any possible "unsupported" hardware problems and can anyone suggest work arounds for those problems? Regards Mick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
