Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 11, 2005 04:26 AM
Not at a time when Knoppix and others can easily detect and test a videocard, when ALL other major distros have sophisticated hardware detection and configuration scripts.
I think you'll find that, although Knoppix is better than Debian at hardware detection, there are still cards which it doesn't auto-detect. For those cards, the Debian way is arguably better.
The real problem with video cards is non-technical - some manufacturers have been conditioned by Microsoft to not give out complete programming information for their cards.
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Re:are we in 2005 or 1995?!?!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 11, 2005 04:26 AMI think you'll find that, although Knoppix is better than Debian at hardware detection, there are still cards which it doesn't auto-detect. For those cards, the Debian way is arguably better.
The real problem with video cards is non-technical - some manufacturers have been conditioned by Microsoft to not give out complete programming information for their cards.
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