Video suggestion
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With all the different graphics card and monitor boot options in Mepis that often leave you with resolution choices too high, low or dysfunctional, why not look at the very efficient and trouble free setup in Puppy Linux, http://www.PuppyLinux.com ? Puppy has a choice of xvesa which works well on almost everything and xorg which is more exact and also works well on almost everything.
SUSE's graphics card and monitor setup also works very well. Perhaps the Kubuntu based setup will work out OK but right now in Mepis 6.5 RC2 it still seems like a major problem.
Re: Maybe you can provide
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The computer that gave us the most problem was the one we use the most for daily work, an Asus MB A7S333 with ATI Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP graphics card and CTL 700TF monitor. This was the one that would only run at 1600x1200 or 640x480 when we like to have it at 1024x768. All the other computers we installed Mepis 6.5 RC2 on including our HP ZE2113US laptop were OK.
The other issue was whether it was necessary to have all the different graphic boot options on the live/install CD when other Linux distros such as SUSE or Puppy Linux don't need that. We are very focused on what it is going to take to get people off of Windows and Mac and over to Linux. Currently we are trying to convince a local whitebook manufacturer to come out with a Mepis Linux laptop so the bar is raised fairly high.
Maybe you can provide
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Maybe you can provide description of what goes wrong with video and your video card/monitor specifications to Warren so he can solve that problem.
In my experience there's nothing wrong with video detection in newest 6.5, I tried it on 6 very different computers and it detects the video very well for all of them
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