Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?
I disagree. It even took me a while to figure out what settings I needed to
get my wheel-mouse to work. It also took me a while to realize that I needed
to load kernel video drivers in order for the xfree86 driver (mga in this
case to work). And I didn't find the remark about "dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86" in the config file for a while either.
There are lots of things that aren't at all obvious to a newbie that isn't
necessarily a computer professional of some sort trying to get Debian
installed the first time. I did it, and I'm glad I did, but simply telling
someone to just read the prompts isn't helpful.
Chris
On Saturday 25 October 2003 01:15, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:18:59AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> > i still try to install debian (usntable) on the laptop, and discover
> > discovers nothing, and even the XF86 config files saved from thos
> > other distributions that worked perfectly well on my laptop don't work
> > under debian.....
>
> Why not actually read the prompts given to you by debconf? It's
> really hard to screw that up...
>
> - --
> .''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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> `. `'` proud Debian admin and user
> `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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