[Poser]

Update your video driver. I had the same problem with video. You are probably running the generic video, as was I.

[ShadowAce]

He doesn't to touch his system in any way. He thinks that all OSes should just work on his specific combination of hardware without any tweaks or changes.

Let him be. He likes complaining.

[VanDeKoik]

I’ll try that.

I just hope there is a Linux video driver for it.

[djf]

See, now there’s the problem.

It takes 3 seconds for you to say “update your video driver... yada yada yada”

Then the person listening decides he’d spend a half an hour or so and it should be EASY to upgrade the driver.

And then after he’s four days into the project and still doesn’t have it done, he’s pretty frosted. And I do not blame him at all. Linux is INCREDIBLY difficult to tweak.

I installed Knoppix on one of my laptops to boot from the hard drive. It would not recognize my wireless. I found all I had to do was make a simple change to one of the init parms,

But it WOULD NOT let me edit it! I had to create a copy, edit the copy, then try to copy it back.
But you can’t say COPY X Y, you have to use MOVE...

Now, I’m not a rookie either. I was my first computer about 1973 and have been working with them ever since. I’ve written a LOT of assembler code, and worked with Univacs, IBM’s, others.
I am a z/OS systems engineer now.

In all my years, the only thing I’ve seen as cryptic as Linux is some of the C derivatives.