Puppy Linux supported Hardware

[Alberto1]

Hello! I downloaded a light Linux distro: Puppy Linux 1.0.3, burned it and used it as live CD, just to get acquainted with it. I like it and find it nice, but I noticed that not all my hardware is suitable to it. In fact my "Matrox Millennium G400" video card can only be used at very low resolution rates, notwithstanding it is supported by Linux, and my sound card "Aureal Vortex au 8830" is not recognized, as it isn't supported by Linux, but, instead, it's supported by ALSA.
I think there is a way to fix such a problem, but, as a beginner I don't know the way. I will be grateful, then, if somebody gives me some advice about it.
In the meantime, as I like Linux and its philosophy, I'm ttrying to gather information about it.
Best Regards,
Alberto

[retsaw]

Puppy uses a cut down X server (the Xvesa KDrive server) to keep its size small, this server relies on the vesa suppiort in the video card so it can only use whatever the video card's BIOS tells it it can use, though it should still offer you a reasonable resoultion. I did have a look to see if puppy has ALSA support, but I couldn't see it mentioned anywhere and the lack of alsa tools leads me to believe it still uses the old OSS drivers. Your best bet is to try another live CD distro I don't know which would be most likely to detect your hardware, so I'm just going to suggest you try Knoppix, which has very good hardware detection, and uses a full X server and I'm sure it also has ALSA support.

[XiaoKJ]

burn your own then :)

with in-built tools its not supposed to be technology for rocket scientists

[retsaw]

No, but I can't see any packages that adds what he needs to Puppy, and that makes things a whole lot harder, and certainly makes it something I wouldn't suggest that a beginner trys.