Try Libranet. It's strongly based on Debian. On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:49, Glenn English wrote: > 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] -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Spit in one hand, and wish for peace in the other. | | Guess which is more effective... | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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