I have now have a Debian Potato Test-Cycle 2 system up and running. Here are my problems with the installation.
First I installed the system using the simple method, but I gave that up as it was impossible to uninstall emacs in a easy way as so many packages depended on it. I don't use emacs and don't want it on my system either :-) Also I choose "none" when the I was asked what kind of keyboard I had (as I didn't have one of those listed and the description said to choose one then). That resulted in that I was unable to answer Y when Debian asked if I wanted to proceed in the installation. I had to reboot and run dselect manually. I did it all over again this time choosing advanced and plucked the packages I wanted to install. This worked better. dpkg reported an error code (1) for these packages, I don't know why (I'm new to Debian though not Linux and not very familiar with dpkg) libxml-dom-perl docbk-cml2x gs ghostview pstotext docbook docbook-stylesheets docbook-xml docbook2man expat gv jade jadetex Later I got also: docbk-xml2x Installation script returned error exit status 100 Mouse in X is problematic. One have to shut down gpm to get it to work. I have a Logitech 3-button PS/2 mouse nothing fancy. The rutine for determining which videocard one has said (as RedHat 6.0 also did) that S3V was the driver for my STB Nitro 3D card, but XF86Setup says it is SVGA which works. RedHat 6.0 uses S3V so I guess there has been a change in the newer xfree86, but not a subsequent update in the routine to check which driver one needs. I have M$ Natural keyboard. When choosing this and pressing Apply in XF86Setup, I was unable to use the keyboard in the program. I had to set it back to a 102 keyboard. w3m-ssl segfaults on https on the second try to access a such link. I don't know if this is a setup problem or if there is a bug with w3m. Other than that I like debian very much. -- Preben Randhol -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- <http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/> "Potato is good for you. Visit http://www.debian.org"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
