On the subject of [F:AMIGA] What's go'n on..., Rene Laederach had this   
   to say...   
    RL> Wendell Watanabe wrote to DENNIS SMITH:   
   WW>> One of our group members brought his brand new AmigaOne into our   
   WW>> meeting this past Sat. Nice looking but, he hasn't been able to   
   WW>> get past the command line yet as it apparently doesn't support his   
   WW>> video card. It seems a bit sad to me that they couldn't provide   
   WW>> him with a fully working (Linux) system! Sorry, I've already   
   WW>> forgotten wich Linux it was. and even who he bought his system   
   WW>> from. I took a picture of the Logo, but it came out blurry. :-(   
      
    RL> In such cases, you have to draw on Linux experts. Usually, the   
    RL> graphics card support of X11 is pretty good to at least get a   
    RL> visible interface. Else,  NVidia on intel is supported, I don't   
    RL> know how this applies to non-intel machines though. But there are   
    RL> open-source Nvidia drivers around for X11 now, although they're   
    RL> not really 3D accelerated.   
      
   I thought it a bit strange that he apparently couldn't get the desktop   
   interface to appear at all. I wondered if he might have made some 'bad'   
   choices during installation. From what I gather, he is pretty new to   
   Linux too. No one else at that meeting was overly familiar with it   
   either. We do have a couple that I'm sure could have helped but that   
   weren't there.   
      
    RL> Maybe hanging into IRC will get you some friendly help. You can   
    RL> guess my moniker on IRC-net and where I hang around (except   
    RL> #zaurus).....   
      
   Sounds like good advice should I decide to take the plunge. :-)   
      
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