[NTLUG:Discuss] Test machine help

[guile at stupidfactor.com]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stan Gatchel" <sgatchel at psltech.com>
To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 1:23 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Test machine help


>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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Do you want to run it on older hardware or is that all you have/can afford? 
I have plenty of surplus hardware so if you need anything email me and I'll 
let you know if I have it. Of course anything I have in surplus will be 
donated if you need it.


-guile