On Wednesday 10 August 2005 02:22 pm, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 11:01, Felix Miata wrote:
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/tmp/Images/gilweber2.gif is my SuSE 9.2 system on K6-III 550 on MVP3 chipset & 256M RAM.
I am running Knoppix 3.2 installed to the hard drive on a AMD K62 450 MHz, 128 MB RAM, and a PCI Creative Voodoo videocard with 16 MB RAM. My main reason for this OS choice (Win obviously not a choice) is that SuSE, Mandrake, and Fedora all failed to detect my ISA Creative AWE64 sound card. Not having much hope, I popped my Knoppix CD in and, lo and behold, it detected the sound card fine and set it up automatically and perfectly. After a while I installed Knoppix to the hard drive and it has been rock solid, allowing this old system to continue in productive use.
Bryan
Hmmm, I have a K6-2 350 with both an ISA sound card and modem and SuSE recognized both cards for me. I have 9.3 installed on it now working nicely, although a bit slow in GUI mode. It's also had 9.2 and earlier versions installed. Everyone thinks Knoppix is a cure all, run anywhere version of Linux, but it's just Debian tweaked a bit. It has no more or no less magical powers with hardware than any other Linux distro. Debian is older stuff made to be stable for the servers both old and some new alike. Actually Ubuntu is suppose to be a mix of Knoppix tweaks and Debian old to provide even better hardware detection, so you might want to try that, but don't figure on it being a total answer either. regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.8.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! ...Calvin & Hobbes