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Old 07-10-2005, 09:32 PM   #1
bnovc
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Averatec 3200


I've tried freebsd, suse, fedora core, and now debian on this laptop, and I can't get anything working.

The debian install actually is recognizing my video card which is a major plus, so I got it mostly running.

My harddrive won't stop spinning ever though and my gnome seems to have changed settings randomly, which is ok because I can use KDE. KDE has more setting problems though because my fonts in every program are VERY small and almost unreadable if my face isn't against my screen. I tried setting the font for everything to size 20 in the KDE configuration tool, but it didn't make it any larger.

I would be glad to try another distro if anyone has experience with an Averatec 3200, but I really don't want to have to run Windows on it!!! I've tried looking ALL over for tutorials, and the one at ccs.neu.edu/home/gene/averatec-linux.html was somewhat helpful but not enough to solve everything and I didn't understand some of it.

Please help; thanks.
 
Old 07-11-2005, 04:18 PM   #2
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No one with any information?
 
Old 09-04-2005, 11:25 PM   #3
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Maybe is too late but FC2 works perfectly with the Averatec 3200. Install that and upgrade to FC3. I haven't tried yet FC4
 
Old 09-23-2005, 05:32 AM   #4
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what works
suse 9.3
ubuntu/kunbuntu 5.4, 5.10 preview
windows 2000 professional
mandriva (maye)

what i couldnt get working
pcbsd (wouldnt install)
freesbie (wouldnt run)
suse 10 rc1 (freezes during kde startup)
gentoo (freezes during kde startup)

the winner: ubuntu 5.10
 
  


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