Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > o Even though I had specified a small /boot partition during disk > partitioning, Grub was incorrectly setting root to (hd1,1), which is my / > partition. Edited command line from grub startup, then fixed > /boot/grub/menu.lst accordingly. I think we have several reports of the grub installation getting this wrong, that is one of the reasons grub was not the default boot loader for the beta release. I assume you used a recent daily build and not the beta. > o The installer created /usr/X11R6/bin with 0700 permissions, which neatly > prevented a non-root user from running anything X-related. Took quite a > while to figure out what was going on. A simple chmod fixed it. What part of the installer? I don't think d-i installs anything X related, that is deferred until after the reboot. It is probably some broken package, it would be useful if you could track down which one and file a bug report. It will be the first package that was installed that created that directory, most likely. > o The base system does not probe for IDE devices, rendering the VMware > CD-ROM device inaccessible. I had to manually modprobe ide-detect after > booting. I'm unfamiliar with module configuration under Debian, so I'm > not sure where to request that this be loaded on a persistent basis. Known problem, and I'm not sure which package to pass the buck on to either unfortunatly. > o User KDE session cannot produce sound unless permissions for > /dev/sequencer and /dev/dsp are changed to 0777. This also begs the > question of why a GNU/Debian installer chooses KDE as the default (I > didn't ask for it, and expected Gnome). The proper way to get sound working for a user is to add that user to the audio group. Unless you don't care of course. Debian is desktop environment agnostic, and installs both. > o The default X display driver for VMware guests cannot properly render > antialiased fonts, e.g. the main menubar popup shows all entries blank > until the mouse is moved over them. Installing the latest VMware X driver > from the VMware tools package fixed this, although their installation > script hosed X completely until I renamed the original (which VMware > modifies to XF86Config-4.BeforeVmware) back to XF86Config-4. This is > certainly not a Debian issue, but it would be helpful to include a current > display driver by default. I suggest you send in a bug report on the xfree86 package, or post to the debian-x mailing list. > o Line drawing characters do not seem available to 'mc' when run in > konsole. Works fine from an xterm or rxvt window. I've never seem this > in other KDE environments. And this as a bug against konsole or the debian-kde list. -- see shy jo
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