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Well, I've decided to dip my toe into some Linux. I'm using PhatLinux - and I've got to say, my first experience has SUCKED. X11 will NOT recognize my geForce2 GTS (it claims the card has 64KB of video ram) and won't run at anything higher than 640x480x8bpp. I've tried getting drivers, but the things don't seem to work (it says it needs XFree 4.0 or better, and PhatLinux apparently doesn't have it.) What the hell do I have to do to get XFree and my GTS working together?

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I'm using PhatLinux

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Try Mandrake.
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I've never used phatlinux, but that's because 100\% of people that I know who have used it said it sucked. Try switching distros for one with a newer version of X (x 4.1.0 was just released, but most distros will probably have 4.0.1 or newer). SuSE, Red Hat (go for version 7.1, stay away from 7), Mandrake 8, and a few others have XF86 4.x. If you're looking for something to specifically boot out of windows, I know slackware comes with loadlin, and I remember reading Mandrake has something that can kinna-sorta do all that (although I can't remember exactly).

Otherwise, you can try upgrading X to a 4 series, but every time I do a source/binary upgrade I fuck up pretty bad, so don't ask me about that.

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Hey, I did say I was "dipping my toe" in Linux. I'm still a "Linux Lam0r" - so I'm looking for something I can run outta Windows. I think I'll try Slackware like Spydir suggested.

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Mother fucker! Is Slackware ever huge - if I'm gonna hit 3 CDs worth of downloads, I might as well get Mandrake or RedHat.

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go redhat.. its newbie friendly...
And dont EVER EVER EVER EVER USE ANYTHING CALLED PHAT!
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... I got slackware 7.1 on a one CD...

anyways, you're better off with mandrake. It's much more newbie friendly.

and if it's "Phat Booty Maker" for chicks, then it's ok to use something named Phat.

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Mother fucker! Is Slackware ever huge - if I'm gonna hit 3 CDs worth of downloads

You only need the install cd, source and contrib are extras.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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OK, I've been doing some research. Here's what I've come up with/plan to run:

- Mandrake 8 or RedHat 7.1 (opinions please?)
- XFree86, latest release (4.1.0?)
- KDE 2.0

Upon further research into PhatLinux (and several hours of fucking around) I've decided it sucks ass. It's basically Mandrake 7.x, XFree86 3.3, KDE, and just enough proprietary code added to totally fuck up any patches/XFree updates that you attempt to install. So much for "don't judge a book by its cover."

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