[NTLUG:Discuss] Test machine help

[Stan Gatchel]

I am on the prowl for a new distro. No more reading reviews. That led me
to SuSE 10.1 which was not good. Now, I want to try them first (live
CD's). I have an older machine purchased in 2001 which I thought would
ok for this. So I bought a bunch of Live CD's to try. When I booted
them, they all gave me distorted graphics (narrow band of diagonals) on
the screen or other messages (like graphics card not recognized). I
suspect the old ATI rage graphics card. Below are the spec's for the
machine. Maybe an old Matrox card would do better?
Here is the disto list:

Sabayon 3.1
Elive 0.5
Freespire 1.0
SimplyMEPIS 6.0
Kubuntu 6.10
Mandriva One 2007
PCLinuxOS 0.39a

Here are the machine specs

Hardware 	Brand 	Bus 	Comments
CPU 	AMD Athlon (i386) 	
	
Disk 	WD400BB-53CAA0 	IDE 	
Disk 	WD200BB-00AUA1 	IDE 	
CD-RW 	PlexWriter (PX-W1610A) 	IDE 	
CD-ROM 	N/A 	
	
Display 	ATI Rage Fury Pro/ Xpert 2000 Pro (128) 	PCI 	Card type AGP --
Northbridge adapter?
Floppy 	Yes 	
	
Memory 	250 MB 	
	
Modem 	Agere V.90 56K Winmodem 	
	
Net Card 	Dlink 10/100 	
	
USB 	2 ports (USB 1.1) 	
	
Sound 	ASUSTek Deluxe motherboard (RealTek ALC850 codec) 	
	



Any ideas?

Thanks,

Stan