I told you already of the French Remaster I made for my 82-year old neighbor - I knew it was only a matter time before his Win2K would run into trouble. Two days ago, he informed me that he couldn't Skype anymore. The audio was gone. I went over, with the PCLOS French Remaster under my arm.

As I expected malware or virus being involved, I asked him if he still wanted to give Linux a try and he said 'Why not', because he realized that once again I would have to reinstall his Win2K for the n-th time, and frankly I think that he was a little embarrassed about it.

So in went the CD. and I let the LiveCd boot. No joy... a video problem. Then I tried with the NoFB option and up came the video and I installed it without a problem in dual boot.

Every piece of hardware was detected without a problem. I apt-getted Skype and we were skyping in no time, mic and audio working.

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