[NMLUG] Mandriva 2007 shortcoming

[Ed at Heron-ent.com (Ed Heron)]

From: "Andres Paglayan" <andres at paglayan.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:50 PM


>I am getting into liking gentoo too,
> I am loading it (7 days and going, that's the only catch)
> on an old PIII @ 500 latitude laptop,
> it really forces you to know the hardware and right drivers,
> but it's kinda cool having everything tailor compiled,

  I use 'lspci -v' to list most of my hardware.  Also, if you boot with the 
livecd and it detects things correctly, you should be able to see what 
modules it loaded.