Building a PC Isn't Hard

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, Ben Duncan wrote:
>Yup. Have 2 Gateway Dual Core in shop now to convert to
>Linux Desktops / rdesktop clients. They have the ON BOARD Intel graphics
>chipset. Am trying out PCLINUXOS on them. After the UPGRADE, the
>video goes to h3ll in a handbasket in a hurry.

I frequently use knoppix live CDs to probe unfamiliar hardware to
figure out what modules are necessary for various devices.

Graphics usually isn't much of a problem as the majority of our
Linux boxes are servers running in init state 3.  If they have
problems with on-board video, and we want to use init 5 for
initial setup, configuring with a generic video card works well
enough for basic GUI stuff (certainly not for fancy desktops, but
we use Macs for that :-).

Bill
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