Re: [gentoo-user] try gentoo again?....LIVE version device support?

[Mark Shields]

On 5/10/06, ted leslie <tleslie@×××.net> wrote:
>
> Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look.
> I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. .... a bit of trouble.
> I assume things are alot more refined now.
>
> I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from,
>
> Can anyone comment on how good GENTOO LIVE CD is on device detection,
> in particular Network cards, USB, and to a lesser extent
> graphics/monitors.
> If someone, in the know, could compare GENTOO against say SUSE or Knoppix
> in that
> area, that would be very helpfull.
> I produce a LIVE DVD for a company, and SUSE has made a pretty good bases,
> but their release cycle is not to quick, and of course GENTOO, a good
> thing in this case,
> has almost a perpetual release cycle.
> In particular, DELL has started selling PC's with no PS2 ports for
> keyboards/mice,
> and thats taking its toll on distros that were released last year.
> So I am contemplating moving to GENTOO, but I can't test the device
> recognition
> on other then a few machines I have, but when I release it to my target
> audience,
> it has to work 99.99% across 400+ employees computers, which can be just
> about
> any computer of recent vintage, including of course brand new Dells with
> no ps2 ports.
>
> -tl
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>

"GENTOO" has no problem working with USB keyboard/mice.  I used a KVM switch
which uses a USB port to hook up both keyboard and mouse (both PS/2) to one
PC, and it worked fine.  This was, however, with the universal install cd
for x86.  The HID device support is built-in the kernel, and if you're going
to build a live cd from scatch (Gentoo even has instructions on their
website on how to do this with their distro), just make sure to compile HID
device support into the kernel.
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- Mark Shields