[conspire] Knoppix Help?

[Jose F. Medeiros]

Thanks for the reply. I mentioned downloading and trying the latest
ISO. I am sure he is not using it to play games, if so he would just
use Ubuntu. However, I'll check with him.

Thanks again for the reply!

Jose

On 4/17/07, David E. Fox <dfox at m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:02:52 -0700
> "Jose F. Medeiros" <jose.medeiros at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > an individual video driver via rpm, which leads me to believe that
> > Video drivers are now modular?
>
> In a sense, they've always been that way, i.e., separate xfree86 (or
> x.org) drivers for each type or family of video cards. xorg does things
> a bit differently, but the basic idea is that you reconfigure
> xfree86/xorg, and it selects the appropriate driver. For ati that would
> probably be fglrx something or other. Not having an ATI, I couldn't
> tell you the ramifications of each version or what specific driver to
> try. But being Knoppix and such, at least one can theoretically do a
> 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and obtain the proper driver for the
> card at the same time.
>
>
>
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