If you want it easy... like i do. Then try morphix. http://www.morphix.org/ has fairly good hardware detection (in fact not bad to use as a live-cd and then just see what it set in the configuration files).
works as a live-cd without installing... get the game one and the gnome or kde one and you are set fairly well when going to someone else's computer. From the live-cd desktop you can also choose to install it to hard-disk. It is based on knoppix. One thing to be careful of is it defaults to testing or unstable and so right now an upgrade of the gnome components will wipe out gnome. a few things are broken right now. ;-( ---dale ---it is ok to have no rules... so long as everyone follows the rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]