Re: [tlug] Pre-installed linux?

[Mark Makdad <mark@??>]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> If your friend could use Fedora, Arch, Mandriva, FreeBSD, Gentoo,
> Vector, or basically anything NOT based on Ubuntu, he should be fine.  I
> believe the Dell towers have ATI cards if I'm not mistaken.  
>   
Hrmm.  I'm taking the long weekend to stop being a hypocrite and to 
finally INSTALL Linux instead of just talking about it all the time.  I 
downloaded Gentoo and Ubuntu to get started... figured I would use the 
LiveCD for each to see which one I preferred.  I've already 
repartitioned (I have a MS-native App that I can't lose for my work, so 
until I get wine working it's going to be dual boot), but haven't 
installed yet.

I have an ATI Radeon 7500 in my Thinkpad.  I wonder, will this also 
cause a problem?

I was able to boot to the LiveCD, but the refresh rates were strange, 
causing my monitor to (only slightly) display part of the image off the 
screen.

Maybe I should try the Gentoo LiveCD as well and see if I have similar 
problems.

Mark