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08-02-2003

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Which distribution is right for me??

First off, hello all, I'm brand new to the forum!! I look forward to learning alot here. Secondly, I'm sorry if this has been asked before, as I did search several ways, but the results were rather overwhelming. I'm trying to determine which Linux distribution I am going to purchase. If I had my way about it, I would go with Red Hat. However, I have a Compaq laptop (what in God's dear name was I thinking!!) with ATI Mobility Radeon M6-P graphics card and I'm having difficulties getting startx in RedHat 7.1 to recognize the card and the laptop LCD display. The installer GUI comes up just fine, but the graphic desktop gives me issues. Anyways, I'm thinking that maybe RedHat 9 would now have support for these, but from the brief search I've done on google, it looks as if its still not supported in RedHat 9 either (but again, I don't know this for sure). The upside to all this however, has to be that I've heard that Mandrake Linux (9.1 I'm assuming, maybe even earlier) supports this particular graphics card and display. Basically, I guess my question is will I be disappointed in Mandrake Linux, as compared to RedHat, or is is six one-half dozen the other?? Sorry again this is so long winded, but I REALLY have an urge to learn the material and I'm anxious to dive in ASAP. Thanks for the help.

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ati

ATI(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    ATI(4)

NAME

       ati - ATI video driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "Device"
	 Identifier "devname"
	 Driver "ati"
	 ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       ati is an Xorg wrapper driver for ATI video cards.  It autodetects whether your hardware has a Radeon, Rage 128, or Mach64 or earlier class
       of chipset, and loads the radeon(4), r128(4), or mach64 driver as appropriate.

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

       The ati driver supports Radeon, Rage 128, and Mach64 and earlier chipsets by loading those drivers.  See those manpages for specific  cards
       supported.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details, and the specific card driver for driver configuration details.

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7), r128(4), radeon(4)

AUTHORS

       See the individual driver pages for authors.

X Version 11						       xf86-video-ati 7.2.99							    ATI(4)