I am trying to set up a newbie friend with a Live CD.

His main concerns are network and sound.

I have CentOS as my primary environment, and it does everything very 
nicely, but it's not a live CD.  It installed snd-via82xx to run my 
sound card, which it describes as a "VIA Technologies VT8233/A/8235/8237 
AC97 Audio Controller".  CentOS has a nice "Sound card detection" tool 
that Just Works [TM].

I have Mepis installed on my hard disk.  It did connect to the network 
OK, but gave me no sound, and a default video resolution.   In fact, I 
can't find any dialog that would tell it to search for a sound card, or 
tell me which one I've got.  As for video, I had to borrow X config 
settings from CentOS to get my monitor set up with other than default 
resolution.  I've used Synaptic to update all areas that seem relevant, 
but still no sound.  There seems to be a newer Mepis distro, but I don't 
want to do a full re-install so Synaptic seems my available option.  I 
updated "core", "Mepis" and a bunch of things that relate to sound, but 
still no sound card, nor any offer to try to find one.

Before Mepis, I tried Knoppix briefly, but it didn't find my sound card 
either.  That was two or three months ago.

So:  is there a live CD that is *really* good at device detection?  My 
friend has several sound cards around, but can't get any of them to work 
with both Win98 and XP, so they seem to be oddball stuff.

TIA,

Vic

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