F8 says my video controller sucks.

[John Summerfield]

Jimmy Bradley wrote:
>       Well, I downloaded the F8 live cd, and burned it to a
> cd,everything went fine until it got to my video controller, and then f8
> said it couldn't recognize my video controller. Funny, F7 had no
> problems with it. I don't know about anyone else on this list, but I've
> been seeing this same sort of problem on other machines running other
> distros. Ubuntu 7.10 doesn't like the video controller, and 7.04 didn't
> like the ethernet or wireless card. Mandriva 2008 also doesn't like the
> video card.
>       What I don't understand is, if you supported a piece of hardware
> in one version, why don't you support it in your new version. I could
> understand it if I was running old hardware, but it's all only about 2
> or 3 years old.
>     I guess for now I'll keep running F7 on that machine, until I get a
> new video card for it,the other machines, I've changed distros on them.
>    So far, the only distro that I haven't had this problem with
> yet(knock on wood) is Cent OS, but who knows, that may change with
> version 6.
> 
> Jim
> 

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