Re: Debian Newbie
To quote Vittorio De Martino <v.demart@dada.it>,
# I've been using RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 for about a year and now I think
I'm ready
# to have a go at some other Linux distro. Being fascinated by Debian
# stability and real "Open Source" nature I put the following
straightforward
# preliminary questions:
# Migrating to Debian potato can I have a USB working
# support (for an Epson scanner) as I have now automatically set up
under
# RH7?
# Is there any user-friendly utility to setup X (I'm using KDE2 at this
very
# moment)?
As of now, the kernel which will be installed on your system would be
"2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03". I have no idea what that is :) I know that it's
more recent than 2.2.18pre21, which was what it was the last time I
installed Debian. So you'll have USB support.
As far as a user-friendly utility to set up X, I don't know. There's
XF86Setup, that comes with XFree86 3.3.6. I find that fairly intuitive.
If you upgrade to 4.0.1(or 2), there's a walkthrough shell
script(xf86config) which'll get you started. However, you might need to
manually tinker with the XF86Config-4 file.
David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay
Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
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