At 09:04 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, A. Demarteau (linux rules!) wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote:
> > This afternoon I bought a box with Suse Linux 7 and a set of books.
> > It took me 2 hours, but now X Windows is running properly. But my
> printer is
> > not supported, and I have not yet configured my ISDN modem.
>That's often the problem with first having the hardware and then deciding
>to install linux on it.
Heck, hardware's not a problem as long as 1) you write all your own
drivers, or 2) you don't buy anything manufactured in the last 2 years. Of
course, even this doesn't hold for video cards. Unless you have free year
to tweak the X config, you're going to have black bars all around the
screen (although truthfully, I've never seen an installation that didn't --
on Linux).
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