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Old Feb 20, 2007 | 5:18 pm
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Originally Posted by typical
Had a horrible, horrible time trying to get it to work with my spare PC (Athlon 1600+, old graphics card, old monitor).

In the end I had to drop into the shell, edit xorg.conf, add a modeline using frequency details provided by Powerstrip in Windows, change the graphics card driver from 'mga' to 'vesa' and restart X with the three-finger salute, before I could even install the bloody thing.

*sigh*
Yeah, that sounds like the Linux I'm used to.

16 years into Linux and it still isn't ready for the mainstream user, this is the reason it'll never become popular for mom and pop.
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