[NTLUG:Discuss] Test machine help

[Leroy Tennison]

Stan Gatchel wrote:
> I am on the prowl for a new distro. No more reading reviews. That led me
> to SuSE 10.1 which was not good. Now, I want to try them first (live
> CD's). I have an older machine purchased in 2001 which I thought would
> ok for this. So I bought a bunch of Live CD's to try. When I booted
> them, they all gave me distorted graphics (narrow band of diagonals) on
> the screen or other messages (like graphics card not recognized). I
> suspect the old ATI rage graphics card. Below are the spec's for the
> machine. Maybe an old Matrox card would do better?
> Here is the disto list:
>
> Sabayon 3.1
> Elive 0.5
> Freespire 1.0
> SimplyMEPIS 6.0
> Kubuntu 6.10
> Mandriva One 2007
> PCLinuxOS 0.39a
>
> Here are the machine specs
>
> Hardware 	Brand 	Bus 	Comments
> CPU 	AMD Athlon (i386) 	
> 	
> Disk 	WD400BB-53CAA0 	IDE 	
> Disk 	WD200BB-00AUA1 	IDE 	
> CD-RW 	PlexWriter (PX-W1610A) 	IDE 	
> CD-ROM 	N/A 	
> 	
> Display 	ATI Rage Fury Pro/ Xpert 2000 Pro (128) 	PCI 	Card type AGP --
> Northbridge adapter?
> Floppy 	Yes 	
> 	
> Memory 	250 MB 	
> 	
> Modem 	Agere V.90 56K Winmodem 	
> 	
> Net Card 	Dlink 10/100 	
> 	
> USB 	2 ports (USB 1.1) 	
> 	
> Sound 	ASUSTek Deluxe motherboard (RealTek ALC850 codec) 	
> 	
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stan
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Someone in the group recommended CentOS to me and I have been pleased 
with it.  What you're getting is basically a repackaged RHEL 4 (or you 
can have RHEL 5 if you want to try their beta).  They also have a live 
CD.  www.centos.org