I'm trying out the suse 9.2pro live cd and it looks sweet so far. nice interface and very smooth etc.

however, it did not detect a ton of my hardware correctly. Is this because it's the live cd?

Nvidia FX5200 - wouldn't let me choose this manually either
Canon Canoscan Lide50 - no drivers
Dell 1801FP - had the 1700fp and 2000fp. (stuck at 1024x768 and won't let me change)
Bunch of motherboard driver like
- PCI bridge
- Memory controller hub
- SMBus controller
- Audigy2 gameport
- Audigy2 MIdi
- VIa 1394 port
- Processor to AGP controller
- LPC Bridge

Thanks, and any suggestions are welcome

modprobe is your friend. . .