-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Justin Hartman wrote: > In the past few months that I've used Debian I've now successfully > managed to install unstable on an Apple iBook G4, Apple mac mini (both > PowerPC) and Intel Celeron PC. I've also installed testing on a server > that I run which is powered by Intel P4 chips.
These are pretty known and supported... no wonder you had few problems. > I know that I've read that laptops in general do give quite a few > problems but in my experience the problems on the HP have been insane. > Some of the issues I've had include:- > > * Getting Etch operational from a netinstall cd What image did you used? Could you define a little bit more what didn't worked? > * Getting my Belkin PCI card operational (still not 100% correct and > only connecting at 11mbps instead of the 54 it's capable of) ndis or native driver? > * Getting the sound card to work (only started working when I > installed KDE - go figure) That sounds like you missed a sound server... I suggest installing pulseaudio, too. It allows all the different systems play well together and doesn't have a "only X channels at a time" limit. > * Preventing Gnome from crashing almost immediately on startup (only > an upgrade to unstable fixed this) That sounds like an RC bug. Could you say what messages (if any) you got? Did failsafe GNOME sessions worked? > * Various network related issues (lots of trial and error) please explain/be more specific > * Not able to print to a SMB network printer (tried everything yet > still can't get there) not sure what you tried, so I don't have a starting point for ideas > So down to the "simple" question. Is this really normal on a PC-based > Laptop to experience such pitfalls in installing Debian? No, not *that* many issues. > PS. I'm not a member of the debian-laptop list yet I thought it might > prove relevant to members of the laptop mailing list. reply-to set to -laptop list - -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF16BWY8Chqv3NRNoRApCIAKC+w5u+wb/d+8wo+OVRa+1sJNeLmACgwRy5 6TOlLK87HEuULl6VsUic+pY= =WwXu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
