Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)
Try Libranet. It's strongly based on Debian.
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:49, Glenn English wrote:
> There ought to be a list for debian wannabes. I've tried several times
> to get woody going on a couple different boxen - most recently a Dell
> Latitude laptop.
>
> Console is fine; X, of course, has been the problem (I haven't even
> looked at the PCMCIA Ethernet and wireless cards yet).
>
> When the installer says, "Have fun," and reboots, the screen blinks a
> couple times, and a curses dialog box comes up saying it can't run X,
> telling me why, and offering to run the X configuration program - that's
> cool. I say, "Yes," and a program starts - IN X!!!
>
> This is not funny, folks; it's sadistic.
>
> The mouse doesn't work, but there's a window telling which keys on the
> numeric keypad to use instead. Laptops don't have numeric keypads, and
> the system knows this is a laptop (I installed "Support for Dell
> laptops" and I saw something flash by while it was booting).
>
> After a while I noticed that some non-numeric keypad keys would move the
> cursor around and simulate mouse clicks. When I 'clicked' on a menu
> item, the screen went blank.
>
> When I pressed ctl-alt-backspace, the screen slowly faded to white.
>
> I've installed Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE on this machine with no
> probs. I've used video and screen data from the XF86 config files from
> those installs, and from Dell's dox.
>
> Is there some FM or FAQ I've missed? Is there a CI program on Debian to
> configure X? Or is vi /etc/X11/XF86Config it?
>
> I'm a 60 year old retired programmer, and I sure would like to see what
> all the fuss is about before I die of old age...
>
> (Everything worked perfectly the first time, BTW, installing woody on my
> sister's old iMac, but I want it on my laptop.)
>
> --
> Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com
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