[NTLUG:Discuss] Test machine help

[Garen Evans II]

Stan,

I'm currently running Linux Mint, an ubuntu(debian)
based distro and you can boot live and install from
the same cd.

I am running it on a mostly stock hp pavilion 724c.

Also, you night try Knoppix live cd. If you like it,
there is a way of installing it also. But it should
give decent video, and might help you troubleshoot
your video issue so it will work better with another
distro.

Garen

--- Stan Gatchel <sgatchel at psltech.com> 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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Garen L. Evans, II
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