RE: Arrgh!

    I have an old Compaq with a Giga-Bite GA 5-smm MB, 256 Mb ram
running an AMD
K6-2 cpu I'm fixing up as a loaner for a friend. My friend prefers Windows,
but I decided it would be a good chance to expose him to some Linux, so I
decided to load Ubuntu on it as a second OS.
    To say the least, I am very disappointed. After spending several
hours on the install, the video is stuck in 640x480, and the OS can't even
find the ethernet card. I took another hour to find the video and LAN
drivers I need to get it working properly, but the ones I've downloaded so
far don't work at all. After more fruitless searching, I'm beginning to
think the drivers I need for it simply don't exist. It's rapidly becoming an
exercise in frustration.
    Fortunately, the Ubuntu partition booted up and ran without a flaw
from the very start, with full SVGA resolution, and it logs onto my home
network in a heartbeat. MEPIS, Puppy, and DSL ran just as well on it
earlier, so that in itself tells me the hardware is working OK.
    After I finish with this last old box,  think I'll stick all my old
Windows
'98 and ME CDs in the toaster, and make expensive Christmas ornaments out of
them so I won't be tempted to try this again!
    With tongue firmly in cheek,
    Stu

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