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Why don’t you use Pardus ?

My brother is a great fan of the Linux distribution Pardus (Pardus-Kurulan-2007.2-RC.iso) and I am a great fan of any sorts of cats (see picture at end of posting and my about page point 7).
So I thought, let my other Linux have another companion …

Truth is … I didn’t come so far initially. At the begin of the installation my screen went black. I tried then also the different offered install options, but none of them worked :-( Google revealed, that some users also had this problem (more info at the end of the article). The installation could go on anyway, when adding the boot option xorg=safe.

Well, in comparison to such an error an unhandled exception might appear less dramatic:

After installation, my problem was now to set up the graphics card with a good frequency (e.g. in Windows, Mandriva to set up 75 Hz with 1152×864 is possible from start, but in Pardus I have so far only 60 Hz ). Downloading new ATI drivers could not fix this problem and the ATI Catalyst Control Center (amdccle) does not want to start at all (it loads and loads and then it decides to not show). Well, I just use for the moment 1024×768 with 85 Hz :-(

But I will definitely investigate here more. I like this distribution and… my brother has some convincing arguments for Pardus. Perhaps I switch with him the hardware

• edit 2007-07-11: higher resolution: I have now 75 Hz with 1152×864 and the developers have some bug reports in Bugzilla
• edit 2007-07-14: unhandled exception: is fixed now in Pardus 2007.2
• edit 2007-07-18: black screen: one developer told this seems to be a driver bug. Zorg had identifed the videocard
  and configured xorg.conf correctly. Either the driver can not identify the output device or it does not init correctly.

Author: Erkan Yilmaz (2007-07-08)