Re: Why I left Debian

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

Bruno wrote:
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:50, Pollywog wrote:
>   
> > On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:42, Bruno wrote:
> >     
> > > Thanks I'll certainly re-try later Debian and etch.
> > > Especially because I already put stikers 'Debian' on my laptop and would
> > > not like to remove them ;-)
> > >
> > > Bruno
> > >       
> > Did Debian detect all the hardware on your laptop?  The reason I removed
> > Debian from my laptop (I run Debian on two desktops) is that it would not
> > detect the modem (a "winmodem") or the wifi interface.  I then tried
> > Xandros and it did not detect them either, but Linspire detected all
> > hardware.  I now have Linspire and Freespire installed on the laptop.
> >
> > I did not try Ubuntu or Kubuntu but those might be good choices.
> >
> >
> > 8)
> >     
>
> I 'll say that Debian detect correctly the hardware on my laptob (Dell Aspire 
> 9100). Except, it seems, video card ATI Radeon x600 for which I had to 
> install different stuffs fglrx and ati as it was not able to do 3D.
>
> But I'm not sure about that because I have the feeling that 3D support is 
> in fact not included in the standard etch reposititories (but I might be wrong 
> on this last asumption...)
>
> Bruno
>
>
>   
No, you are right, but as far as I know, it is NOT included by default 
in any Linux.  Nos Suse, not FC, not Ubuntu, not Debian, not any I have 
tried.

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Damon L. Chesser
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damon@okfairtax.org