Linux Distro suggestions

[ratdude747]

Re: Linux Distro suggestions

my question is getting it to work without display bugs.

i don't want ubuntu. never did.

the problem is the i915 module is broken when used on i8xx chips... an intel driver update circa mid 2010 caused the problem. the main response from ubuntu (and fedora, apparently) is "i8xx is old; blacklist it, nobody uses those anyway"

[toastygoodness]

Re: Linux Distro suggestions

my question is getting it to work without display bugs.

i don't want ubuntu. never did.

the problem is the i915 module is broken when used on i8xx chips... an intel driver update circa mid 2010 caused the problem. the main response from ubuntu (and fedora, apparently) is "i8xx is old; blacklist it, nobody uses those anyway"

yeah... i remember that now. it doesn't make sense because EEE PCs still use that chipset. apparently the module is now called intel-agp and may be in the xf86-video-intel packages, at least in arch.


Here's a discussion in slackware, which may be closer to what you are looking for since drivers there are a bit more manual: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...etbook-806575/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_904HA

[ablacon64]

Re: Linux Distro suggestions

I used to switch distros to find a good one. Tried Red Hat, Brazilian Conectiva, Brazilian Kurumin, Debian, Slackware (loved it) and Ubuntu (don't like it).

8 years ago I found Gentoo (1.4), never switched since then. It's a bit overwhelming at first but it's well documented and the comunity is amazing. Bugs are solved fast and user support via forums is very good.

You configure something once and it stays configured the way you want.

The major problem is compiling big packages like openOffice but they have binary pre-compiled packages as well.

But if you really want a pre-compiled package based system, I'd recommend Debian itself or Slackware (although it lacks a good dependency package checker).