[PLUG] amd 64 distros

[John Jordan]

On 21 May 2005, at 23:08, Russell Senior wrote:

> I thought of Debian, but (out-of-the-box anyway), but his keyboard and
> touchpad are dead in Debian-derived Ubuntu and Knoppix live cds.  His
> USB wireless mouse worked and we plugged in a borrowed USB keyboard
> and it "worked" if you count randomly repeated keystrokes as "working"
> (hey, maybe it was a labor-saving idea!).  Probably all sortable
> though.  I only had three hours to work with, so I didn't go there.

I was going to post about the Mandriva initrd problem on Mandriva's 
web forums and other places. But before doing that I started surfing 
around to see who else had 64-bit distros. In the process I 
stumbled on a link to ATI Linux drivers. And guess what they 
posted on May 17? 

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

This sure as heck looks like the driver I need!

So this morning I decided to forget about Mandriva for the moment. 
I knew I could get Suse 64-bit installed, so I just finished installing 
it. It doesn't detect the wireless, but I'm pretty sure that can be 
handled, with Linuxant if necessary. It also automatically finds my 
ethernet and the cable modem. I get awfully tired of that green 
lizard, but maybe later I can figure out how to install a more 
pleasing desktop.

So right now it is on the above site. I'm going to download the driver 
and see if I can figure out how to get YaST to install it.