On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:18:53AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Hello. > > I have to install Linux on one box that I will admin remotely. > A few users there will want to use GNOME (or maybe KDE, but it would be > fine if I install just GNOME). I'll have to make a short trip to install > the OS, and would like to do this as quickly as possible. > > So -- since I don't have a box here to try and test installing Sarge, > my question is: how easy is it to configure X and GNOME? At least > until Woody, it didn't "just work out of the box", as it happens > with Fedora, for example. Not that I think installing Fedora is a > better idea, but I'd like to know how long it will take. > Those who have installed Sarge -- what did you have to do to get X > (and GNOME) running? Does it detect the hardware without problems? > What is used to configure X? Did it work for you without need for > manually tweaking /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ? And did GNOME and gdm install > nicely too? > It depends mostly on the hardware. Much hardware is automatically recognized and configured. Much is not. Searching the list archives (and the archives of debian-x) will give a good idea of what hardware has been giving problems with Sarge. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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