Debian on a Toshiba Satellite A30 (Was Re: Debian on ThinkPad T41p: a report and a question)
Thus spake Martin Weinberg (martin.weinberg@comcast.net):
> In short, (nearly, see below) everything worked out of the box.
Lucky you. I've installed two machines from the RC1 disc one a desktop
(AMD Athlon) one a Toshiba A30 notebook (my wife's machine).
What puzzles me is the differenes between the two installs, both of
which involved keeping the home partition from a previous (MEPIS)
install.
On the desktop XFree386 wasn't installed although chunks of KDE
were. The X configurator produced a non-functioning config file -
fortunately I had the MEPIS-generated one backed up and that worked
fine.
Also, I rashly answered 'auto' to the question about sound wrappers
and sound doesn't work.
On the notebook: tasksel didn't offer me the options of 'desktop' or
any of the languages (distinct contrast to the desktop system), so no
KDE, no gcc, no make etc etc.
However sound seems to work perfectly (and no question about
wrappers).
I installed XFree386 and the configurator produced a perfect config
file. I installed KDE - or thought I had. Turns out that kde-base
doesn't seem to be required as a dependency by the other KDE
components, but it won't run unless you do have it installed.
The biggest problem, though, was the inconsistency of tasksel.
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