There ought to be a list for debian wannabes. I've tried several times to get woody going on a couple different boxen - most recently a Dell Latitude laptop.
Console is fine; X, of course, has been the problem (I haven't even looked at the PCMCIA Ethernet and wireless cards yet). When the installer says, "Have fun," and reboots, the screen blinks a couple times, and a curses dialog box comes up saying it can't run X, telling me why, and offering to run the X configuration program - that's cool. I say, "Yes," and a program starts - IN X!!! This is not funny, folks; it's sadistic. The mouse doesn't work, but there's a window telling which keys on the numeric keypad to use instead. Laptops don't have numeric keypads, and the system knows this is a laptop (I installed "Support for Dell laptops" and I saw something flash by while it was booting). After a while I noticed that some non-numeric keypad keys would move the cursor around and simulate mouse clicks. When I 'clicked' on a menu item, the screen went blank. When I pressed ctl-alt-backspace, the screen slowly faded to white. I've installed Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE on this machine with no probs. I've used video and screen data from the XF86 config files from those installs, and from Dell's dox. Is there some FM or FAQ I've missed? Is there a CI program on Debian to configure X? Or is vi /etc/X11/XF86Config it? I'm a 60 year old retired programmer, and I sure would like to see what all the fuss is about before I die of old age... (Everything worked perfectly the first time, BTW, installing woody on my sister's old iMac, but I want it on my laptop.) -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
