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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I will come to Barry's defense and make these points for him and attack other's.
1. Barry has yet to detail the manufactuer of his system board. So here are the scenario's that should take place in a well designed system:
Its been awhile for me in the PC arena, but I believe that when he selected PCI as the graphics adapter the bios should have disabled the onboard AGP controller and configured the PCI Graphics adapter as primary. It is possible that the bios left the AGP port on as a secondary video device, which Windows does support (Since the CodeView days). I cannot speculate any further until Barry gives us the manufacturer of his system board. There could be a jumper to disable the onboard AGP as someone stated earlier.
2. Even if the Bios or Barry made an error by leaving the AGP port on as secondary video device, it does not become an old hardware issue or user error. It becomes the Linux Distro's problem for not anticipating such as a scenario and going with the default primary video controller. It's an error caused by the programmer of the disto installer, period.
3. The reason why Barry's i810 video is so slow is because its probably using system memory as video memory and no real AGP RAM installed. This will kill system performace in graphic intensive apps. I can't remember if the i810 does support AGP RAM, but I'm pretty sure the i815 does.
4. I know a thing a two also about standard office machines. The i810 and i815 were specificially designed to address the cost effective business market. Major OEM's have sold tons of'em. 7000 machines is petty. Try tens of thousands of units a month.
5. This just goes to show that some Linux Disto's are not ready for primetime.