Steve Juranich said: > I eventually converted to Mandrake, since it was easier to maintain > (they had that rudimentary up2date-like system a couple of years > before RH). I then met another friend who basically called me a > little girl for running Mandrake, and he introduced me to the > beauty of 'apt'.
Crap! I wussed out last night after not being able to set my damn sound card working in Debian Woody. I have put it on and removed it twice now in the past couple of weeks, and the last experience was the most positive of all of my distros tried: Slack 8.1, RH 7.2 and 8.0, Libranet 2.0, and then the Knoppix Live CD, which rocks, but is more of a demo (I have made a few converts at work with that disc!). My sound card os one of those generic VIA AC97 onboard cards, on a Shuttle AK32 board w/Athlon 1.1. I searched the archives of this list and there were many issues and posts with that card, and worse yet, it seems to be a fairly generic description. I did the lsipc list and it showed on there, I tried modprobe, sndconfig, and kudzu, but nothing. Then I remembered that when I tried Mandrake 9.0 last week to play with it, it picked up the sound mod and initialized it. I actually threw a disc in and got to listen to it. The Knoppix is basically Debian and I got the same error from it, and the ONLY other distro that picked up the soundcard all right was the other Deb-based one: Libranet 2.0. However, I botched that install somehow and GRUB didn't load right. I didn't care to retry it as I wanted to try a couple of others that night (LONG NIGHT, but exciting to see all of those!). Anyway, I searched and searched and frankly, didn't even understand what the answers were that were being provided. Since I saw that it had come up so often here, I was a little gunshy of posting to this list. I will research it later and I know I will be back to Debian soon -- maybe even tonight or tomorrow :) Mandrake 9.0 has GNOME 2 on it, which is cool, and it still has development tools that I can learn on. Aside from the bad taste that RPMS leave in peoples' mouths, is Mandrake really THAT bad? I need more of the basics to understand this stuff. Need to spend more time in the CLI, and Mandrake can let me do that when I want, yet give me a functional GUI when I want it. I can't help but feel like a bastard, though. I want Debian, Slack, or Gentoo to work for me, but need to break myself in or I won't even survive the install. By the way: I am a MASTER patitioner, at least now! ;0} Scott --sidewalking-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
