On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:44:37PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > On Saturday 25 October 2003 01:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... > > Why not actually read the prompts given to you by debconf? It's > > really hard to screw that up... > > > > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I disagree. It even took me a while to figure out what settings I needed to > get my wheel-mouse to work. It also took me a while to realize that I needed > to load kernel video drivers in order for the xfree86 driver (mga in this > case to work). And I didn't find the remark about "dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86" in the config file for a while either. > > There are lots of things that aren't at all obvious to a newbie that isn't > necessarily a computer professional of some sort trying to get Debian > installed the first time. I did it, and I'm glad I did, but simply telling > someone to just read the prompts isn't helpful. > > Chris >
The same is true for me; under "woody", 'debconf' didn't get me anywhere. I guess one has to be rich enough to keep up with recently sold mainstream computers. My old AMD 133 MHz with a 1 MHz Tseng ET4000 required some manual surgery to get my configurations right. (Works nicely now with 'icewm-gnome'.) This is not to blame any Debian developer: I am just experiencing what it means to add some adaequate instructions to my little anti-spam mail handling system; it seems to take much more time than programming the stuff itself. btw. Does anybody know how to get a "100x40" or "100x37" textmode with a NOT SVGA-compatible graphic card, I mean a replacement for 'SVGATextMode' ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
