topic title: Hello, Trying Out antiX M8
Posts: 20
RHTopics
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#1
I am trying out antiX m8 on my three computers. I now have it installed on my Gateway mt6451 notebook computer. The installation went smoothly. I have not tried the wireless connection yet, but it appears to have loaded the proper driver for the Broadcom bcm4311 card.

My oldest computer is a Compaq Presario 5170 desktop that I bought new back in 1998. It is a Pentium II 350mhz upgraded with 384mb ram and 80 GB hard drive. Running antiX on it as a Live CD worked well. It properly recognized the Samsung 731b lcd monitor and the onboard ATI graphics card. To get the onboard es1689 sound card to work, I had to issue the following command:

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 su -c"modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpuio=0x330"
My other computer is a 5 year old Emachines t3256 desktop computer. It is an AMD Athlon XP with 1 GB ram and onboard Nvidia graphics card. I have an older Microtek C893 lcd monitor attached to it. This monitor's optimum vertical sync refresh rate is 75 Hz rather than the normal 60 Hz. To get the video right, I added the following boot options when using antiX as a Live CD:

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 xres=1280x1024 vsync=60.0-75.1 hsync=31.5-80.0

So far I am impressed with antiX, but I do have some questions that I will post later in the proper subforum.

Cheers,

RHTopics
Last edited by RHTopics on 20 Feb 2009, 17:23, edited 1 time in total.
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plvera
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
#2
Hello RHTopics:

Welcome to Antix! That's great that you are trying 3 computers at a time. It's a great distro and very powerful and flexible. Right now I have antix running well in 3 computers at home too. Post how it goes and any problems and someone will try to help.

Best regards,
Pedro
Posts: 20
RHTopics
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
Pedro,

Thank you for the welcome.

Follow up. Wireless does work on my notebook computer so now I am free to roam about. __{{emoticon}}__

With"partimage" being included on the Live CD, I plan on using antiX to make partition image copies. I have been using an older Knoppix CD for this task, so it is good to have a newer version of"partimage" available.