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Dear Gary,
I would like to reply to your posting at the Debian Mailinglist but
since I do not know how to do I write to you personally.
I just bought the Desknote A928 and I have similar problems as you.
Concerning the first one, adding the boot paramater
"video=vga16:off" helps in my case. I do not know what this
paramter does and why it does not work without. Without that
parameter the system switsches to 80x30 console, thus the last five
lines are missing and some letters on the left. I found this hint
on page 53 of the guide "Installing Debian..." Do you know of any
webpage containing a list of all kernel parameters ?
Concerning the XServer, I did not manage to start it even after
commenting out with "#" the line " Load "extmod" ". I think I
will try to install Red Hat Linux or the included ThizLinux, maybe
that works better.
Good luck with Linux,
Klaus
PS If you want you can publish my reply on the webpage
http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200211/msg00282.html
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* To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
* Subject: Debian install for i-Buddie Desknote
* From: Gary Moselen <gary.moselen@peace.com>
* Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:49:19 +1300
* Old-return-path: <garym@peace.com>
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I have an i-Buddie Desknote laptop and had a few issues
installing Debian from the Woody release.
Firstly, when booting the default image from the CD the dbootstrap
program would display incorrectly, the 4 leftmost characters were not
displayed and the bottom characters "wrapped" around to the top of the
screen. I suspect this was something to do with terminal settings.
When booting from the "vanilla" image the dbootstrap program displayed
correctly however, and I was able to complete a bootable install.
Secondly, when configuring X, it seemed to have difficulty when the
default color depth was lower *or* higher than 16-bit. I did have
trouble after I had deemed the resolution problems solved however,
so whether this was in fact a problem is not proved.
Lastly, I could not get the X server to successfully start up while
the "extmod" module was being loaded; I don't know what this module
does and I did not recieve any useful log message regarding it in the
Xfree log file, but through trial and error and manually editing the
XF86-Config-4 file I narrowed it down to this module.
If anyone has an explanation for these problems, I'd be grateful to
know.
Gary Moselen
Peace Software
www.peace.com
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