On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:01:45PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey folks, > > Just some opinion about the sarge install process. I installed a july daily > build(I can't remember the exact one, but i think it was 25) on my computer > that has just the very common hardware(i386 arch) with the 2.6 kernel. I > consider myself a getting-to-intemediate-level user and here's some things you > might consider (or not :P): > 1)X configuration should be more automatic. I couldn't get the x server to work > on the first try. So I just did some copy and paste for the config file I > backedup from my old Mandrake distro I replaced with debian. If Mandrake can, > why can't debian get the configuration right with not much user intervention > and technical knowledge? These would make things much easier;
It would probably be interesting and useful for the X packaging team to see a diff between the config that was generated from configuring X and the config you ultimately had to use to get X working. In my experience, provided you give the X configuration the right input, it does a reasonable job of getting X working. > 2) I select the desktop package collection and then later when I was trying to > install some software I found out make, gcc and other tools were not installed. > I think these tools should be installed on any install because unfortunetelly > not everything come on .deb packages from a organized repository; This is a matter of opinion. Not everyone wants a compiler installed by default. Firewalls don't need a compiler. If you want to build stuff, apt-get install build-essential. Whether the desktop task should install build-essential is debateable. I'm inclined to think there should be a "Development" task that installs at least build-essential packages... > 3) It should be a way to find out what's the best mirror. I had to try I few > until I found that was acceptably fast. Well that's going to vary from person to person. I'm not sure how something like apt-spy can be integrated with the mirror selection process. > 4) My TV card(PixelView Pro w/ FM) doesn't worked after the installation. And > still doesn't. OFFTOPIC: If anyone has any document or anything that can help > me get it to work, it would be very much appreciated.Those things on Google did > not work, I'll try harder to get this card to work and I have more free time :) > > I think that's all, > > Guilherme > "If God came down on Christmas day, I know exactly what He'd say > He'd say Oi! to the punks, Oi! to the skins, > Oi! to the world and everybody wins!" No Doubt > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
