RTaylor wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:13:21 +0200
> Ismael Valladolid Torres <ismael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>El viernes, 22 de agosto de 2003, a las 12:19, Chris Share escribe:
>>
>>>It correctly detected my video card and monitor, something that
>>>Debian couldn't do.
>>
>>It's not that the Debian installer can't detect your video card. It
>>simply does not try to.
>
>
> I've not had a problem with it in the past few years.
> {2 nvidia cards, a matrox 450, an ati radeon 7200 and
> 2 different 3dfx ~300s {one with tv in, one without}}
>
> I have had problems with modelines and this "frigging"
> monitor. {No problems whatsoever with my lcd.}
>
> I didn't have problem 1 with RH9 {once I set my
> CMOS back to the defaults. It even identified the
> monitor {Which is something I couldn't do}}
>
> {'Course, I already have all the settings for Debian
> saved... It's just a matter of copying the config
> files.}
>
on intel machines you can use knoppix to 'jump-start' debian, it has
pretty good auto-detection (boot knoppix live CD, instal to disk, change
/etc/apt/sources.list to debian and then use normal debian maintenance
procedures (apt-get, aptitude etc.))
erik
