Re: XORG and Debian
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(I have CC-ed the thread starter since I don't know if he's subscribed to the
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Kniese, Ralf wrote:
> Iàm a very normal PC-User who`s friend advised him to use Debian 4 years ago
> - I the meantime I really enjoy working with it, dispite suffering a lot of
> pain (because not beeing a PC-spezialist).
This is one of the things we are striving for, making the system as easy to
use as possible.
> Using woody I suffered pain because of xfree86; this stopped with sarge;
What do you mean by "it stopped with sarge"? Did the installation and
detection of xfree86 in sarge worked flawlessly?
> last week I tried to install etch - the installation was very good;
> congratulations - having finished the installation I really suffered pain
> from Xorg; this was really frustrating, because a the information found in
> the net did not help.
What happened? Was the X.org server not configured properly? Was it something
else? Please, be more specific.
> If you want etch to be the one kicking Win-stupid in the...... you should
> find solutions for that problem - normal people should be able to run the
> installation without problems up to the point where they can work with it.
Sorry, I haven't seen clearly what the problem is. Is kind of difficult to fix
a problem when you don't know what is the problem :-) .
> And the language of "specialists" does not help if the system can`t be used
> as expected.
Could you please be more specific? Also, I advice you to read the installation
manual. There is a lot of information there that can help in going over the
"specialist language" problem.
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/
> Please do not see that as a too negativ wording - I really like Debian and
> would appreciate it`s sucess in every home on the globe.
Believe me, we would like that, too :-)
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Regards,
EddyP
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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