Re: Debian 7 installation

2013-11-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, > I press "Install" and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black > and I have no idea what is going on. Excellent post! No laptop infor

Re: Debian 7 installation

2013-11-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/17/13, Atari McBits wrote: > I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, > I press "Install" and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black > and I have no idea what is going on. Are you able to boot using a live CD? Have you done a web search for "

Debian 7 installation

2013-11-16 Thread Atari McBits
Hello, I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, I press "Install" and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black and I have no idea what is going on. - Kryptis3

new radeon R7770 wont give double monitor with wheezy. stuck using proprietary drivers how to get nice font console on bootup?

2013-11-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have used nvidia cards before. I decided to try radeon because reputed better support :( I tried the radeon driver. in X got only duplicate copies of the same screen on both monitors. xrandr only reported a single Screen stanza. However what is nice is that with radeon during boot up to c

Re: Automatic installs

2013-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Mark a few of the top level ones and then run autoremove, answer 'n'o. > > Then pick another top level package and mark it. Then run autoremove > > again and answer 'n'o again. Repeat until you have marked to keep all > > of the packages that you want t