On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:33 -0600, Evan Gearing wrote:
Yep, I tried it and it seems the driver doesn't work. I've found instructions on making a package from the drivers at the ATI website, but none of that works. The funny thing is I can vnc into it from another machine, and then I can use the graphical desktop like normal. Too bad those VNC settings won't work on the laptop's own lcd screen, if that makes sense. I guess I need to stick with Kubuntu although I like the SuSE distro the best. If only I could get my belkin f5d7010 wifi card to wor. I'm afraid I'm pretty new to linux and it looks as though linux is pretty hard to learn especially when I make a living at working on Windows computers.
It's not so hard to learn, just different. If you were coming from a DOS environment you would find it much easier. And things have become much easier than they once were. Of all of the complaints I see on this list #1 is wireless cards and #2 is graphics setup. Both of which can be blamed on the EOMs for not providing proper drivers for their hardware. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998