Linked by Barry Smith on Tue 23rd Dec 2003 20:02 UTC
So far this series has checked out Lindows 4.0, Libranet 2.8.1 and MEPIS 2003.10. Meanwhile both Lindows.com and Xandros have been busy little beavers and spat out new versions of their software, each on the same day. Since I am trying to find the best bang for my buck in a Debian based commercial distro, and since I am already a registered user of LindowsOS, I felt compelled to download a free copy of Lindows 4.5 to have a second look at this thing.
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Edward: You have have missed this before posting sh*t??:
"As I also pointed out, Mandrake 8.0 was able to recognize and configure this hardware 3 years ago. Is Lindows unable to compete with what Mandrake had going for it as much as three years ago?"
I believe you are confusing what you wanted to happen with what should happen.
The operating system will see two video cards (it shouldn't, and this is the fault of the motherboard). Given this, it has to make a choice as to which one to use as a default.
Given that from an OS point of view, that it is damn near impossible to determine if given piece of hardware on the PCI and AGP bus's are intergrated or not, and that the AGP/intergrated graphics will appear last on on a device listing, it would seem that the Lindows hardware detection makes a concious choice to choose a AGP card over a PCI card.
I would suspect, given the apparent age of the motherboard, that there is a jumper switch that does truely disable the onboard graphics. If this was done, and the onboard card no longer showed up on the device listing, and Lindows insisted on trying to use it, I would agree, but this is not the case here.
The Lindows hardware autodetection software is simply making the the best decision based on the information given to it.