[Leaplist] PCLinuxOS-2007 rates a 5 out of 5!

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 12 June 2007 12:02, patrick wrote:
> Fred Moore wrote:
> > Steve Litt wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 07:25, William Warren wrote:
> >>> it's a nice distro.  but on my nforce-2 mobo with a radeon 9600XT it
> >>> simply won't do anything but go to a black screen with any ATI driver
> >>> loaded...:(
> >>
> >> You know what I do when that happens with Mandriva? After Mandriva
> >> installation I back up xorg.conf, then I fire up a Knoppix live CD, copy
> >> the xorg.conf to /mnt/hda1/etc/X11 or whatever, then reboot without
> >> Knoppix, and often the Knoppix xorg.conf is enough for you now to get
> >> video, although it's often flickery.
> >>
> >> SteveT
> >
> > That always works for me..  I just reboot a livecd, copy
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf to my usb drive, reboot and copy it over the one that
> > doesn't work..   and away I go..  Glad you thought to mention that
> > Steve, its just one of the things we do and forget to pass on..
> > Much easier than figuring out what is wrong with the conf file.. guess
> > old system programers are just lazy..
> > later.. Fred
> >
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> Having Mepis run so good, on so many systems, where PCLinuxOS would need
> me to do the copy of xorg.conf, having also missed the repositories for
> several months, and being back to Debian with Mepis, meaning that all
> the Debian, Ubuntu, and Mepis repositories are available in Mepis, I am
> not running PCLinuxOS now.
>
> Well, let me elucidate.  When I hand out a livecdrom to a noob, we both
> expect few problems. More repositories mean fewer troubles grabbing the
> files, updates...

Except, of course, if the noob has dialup (you know, like me). Personally, I 
like as much as possible on the actual distribution media.

SteveT