Re: Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:48:36AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian
> 2.1 on it for about two weeks now. I can install it no problem, except
I have done it in less than 2 hours including alsa + pcmcia + irda ...
> that I cannot get X Windows configured correctly. I even updraded to
> XFree86 3.3.5, and still can't get it to work (although I can get Red Hat
> 6.1 installed on it in my first try). The problem is that I don't want
> Red Hat, I want to run Debian. I even had two linux engineers here where
> I work try to get it running, and they had no success. I have checked out
> linux resources for IBM Thinkpads on the net, and have also received
> much useful information from this list. But, I think I am giving up on
> slink. I may have to move to Red Hat, even though I don't want to. But
> first I want to ask a question. I have never used an unstable release.
> (And I am also a newbie). Is it worth giving Potato a try? Should Potato
> make this problem easier to tackle for me? Or would the fact that it is
> unstable, only make life more difficult?
>From the above mail i dont think you should try potato as it seems
you are not so deep in linux hacking - You wont be happy.
For the XFree - I habe Slink running on my 390E - If you want i put up
kernel debs + alsa debs + pcmcia debs + Xfree binary tgz for you
to download ...
Flo
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