I just purchased a used Lenovo T430 and did my interpretation of
a minimal install of Debian 8.6.0 with a Mate DE.
During install was a warning message that two non-free drivers
were "required". As I had none available I chose the option to
continue without installing. It went on and I have an apparently
fully functional system.
I have two questions:
1. Is there a log somewhere that would tell me what it thought
was missing?
The laptop may have a feature that I've never used but would
like if I
knew it existed.
2. The explicit raison detre of this laptop is to serve as a test
bed for, for
want of a better term, alternative configurations. All
install will be done
with a very custom preseed.cfg file. If I'm not interested in
whatever
functionality provided by this non-free software, is there a
way to bypass
that particular warning?
There is a separate issue with default font sizes that I've
noticed before, but am now motivated to address. Default fonts
are annoyingly small. I know how to adjust them on a per user per
font basis in Mate's "Appearance Preferences" menu. As there will
ever be exactly one human seeing this machine, where can change
the default setting from "10" to "16" system wide [preferably by
preseeding]? If it would also change the font size of the User
login screen that would be much appreciated.
On a related note, when I set the display font size to readable
the labels for desktop icons tend to overlap. Where can icon
spacing be set?
TIA
- Quirks noted with install on new machine Richard Owlett
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