[linux-audio-user] Red Hat 9.0 is installed!

[Erik Steffl]

RTaylor wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:13:21 +0200
> Ismael Valladolid Torres <ismael at sambara.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>El viernes, 22 de agosto de 2003, a las 12:19, Chris Share escribe:
>>
>>>It correctly detected my video card and monitor, something that
>>>Debian couldn't do.
>>
>>It's not that the Debian installer can't detect your video card. It
>>simply does not try to.
> 
> 
>  I've not had a problem with it in the past few years.
>  {2 nvidia cards, a matrox 450, an ati radeon 7200 and
>   2 different 3dfx ~300s {one with tv in, one without}}
> 
>  I have had problems with modelines and this "frigging"
>  monitor. {No problems whatsoever with my lcd.}
> 
>  I didn't have problem 1 with RH9 {once I set my
>  CMOS back to the defaults. It even identified the
>  monitor {Which is something I couldn't do}}
> 
>  {'Course, I already have all the settings for Debian
>   saved... It's just a matter of copying the config
>   files.}
> 

   on intel machines you can use knoppix to 'jump-start' debian, it has 
pretty good auto-detection (boot knoppix live CD, instal to disk, change 
/etc/apt/sources.list to debian and then use normal debian maintenance 
procedures (apt-get, aptitude etc.))

	erik