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

[patrick]

Steve Litt wrote:
> 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
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I always ask the kind of Internet connection they have, and give out the
latest distro to them, to avoid such problems.