Most of the hardware that windows 98 can find in your PC and SUPPORTED in
Linux can be found quite easily. Try the latest distributions (Redhat
Loxar, Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, SuSE 6.2 etc)
Also, Windows like to mess with IRQ's, DMA's and stuff that you'll no
neccsary agree to the same settings on Linux...
Just my opinion.
Hetz
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Stephen D. WIlliams wrote:
> (Possibly out of place on this list, but I think the right people are here.)
>
> I observed that the hardest part of installing Linux on a misc. machine is
> configuring the video card/monitor for X (always a problem for desktops) and
> configuring sound (sometimes a problem for desktops).
>
> While detection of the chipset and abilities has been progressing pretty well
> that there is still a gap in getting the settings reasonable for a particular
> implementation of that video card and the present monitor.
>
> It occurred to me that it is probably possible to write a Win98/NT program
> that can grab those settings from a running system (configured with card
> vendor supplied BIOS/drivers) and save them to a floppy for use in installing
> Linux on that box.
>
> I'm speaking generally about the frequency rates, dot clock settings, and
> other related configuration. Even video mode would be something that would
> allow the Linux system to start with the same video abilities as the original
> OS.
>
> I'd be surprised if this wasn't thought of before; why can't we do this?
>
> sdw
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