Re: new debian install

2019-07-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 iul 19, 06:18:10, N D wrote: > Hello, Hello, > I am looking for a Linux distribution that is stable and have just > installed Debian 9 as a windows 7 replacement. Debian 10 was released just a few days ago, you might want to give it a try instead. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wi

Re: new debian install

2019-07-10 Thread Peter Ehlert
the characters are not intended to show, not even a string of it is for security. I don't know if it can be changed does it accept the password? On 7/9/19 11:18 PM, N D wrote: Hello, I am looking for a Linux distribution that is stable and have just installed Debian 9 as a windows 7

Re: new debian install

2019-07-10 Thread Esteban L
Can you provide a screenshot? Not sure if they are allowed on the mailing list :-) What desktop environment are you using? Does your keyboard input work otherwise? Generally linux systems are stable, I assume you are using debian--since you are in this mailinglist. On July 10, 2019 8:18:10

Re: New Debian install problem

2009-11-21 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:27:06 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > It is a driver, video card issue, ATI. The radeon driver changed. Search > for 'white screen of death' , ATI Ok, the problem is all over the web, from time to time. what's the solution? I don't have any proprietary fglrx ati drivers insta

Re: New Debian install problem

2009-11-19 Thread Brian Denheyer
Mike, That's great ! I'm not quite sure why you could see a mouse pointer if your video card wasn't working. Very strange. My experience with ATI and Linux has been very bad. I've got an ATI in this G5 that I'm using and it's been the first ATI card which has worked reliably for me under Linu

Re: New Debian install problem

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 16:51:38 Mike Allegro wrote: > I just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. After the > installation I rebooted my computer and Debian Linux loaded up, when it > goes into the graphics part I see a blue screen with a symbol that > reminds me of the ho

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-09 Thread Richard Möhn
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 01:08:37AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/08/2008 09:57 PM, Taahir wrote: > >I am a fairly new linux user, and have recently installed Debian on its > >own hard > >disk in what will eventually become a dual-boot system. The Windows drive > >is > >currently not connected,

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:46:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/09/08 00:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] >> >> there are several ways to go about this. What you need to do first, >> I think, is find out which video driver is trying to run that >> card. Realise that the 8xxx series ca

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/09/08 00:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] there are several ways to go about this. What you need to do first, I think, is find out which video driver is trying to run that card. Realise that the 8xxx series cards are having lots of trouble with the nvidia drivers. I've given up on g

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-08 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/08/2008 09:57 PM, Taahir wrote: I am a fairly new linux user, and have recently installed Debian on its own hard disk in what will eventually become a dual-boot system. The Windows drive is currently not connected, so that isn't a factor. My graphics card is an nvidia 8800 gts. My proble

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:57:44PM -0500, Taahir wrote: > > I am a fairly new linux user, and have recently installed Debian on its own > hard > disk in what will eventually become a dual-boot system. The Windows drive is > currently not connected, so that isn't a factor. My graphics card is an

Re: New debian install, XFree86 cannot detect mouse (solved)

2002-12-24 Thread Adam
I have fixed the problem. In the following section: Section "Device" Identifier "STB Velocity 128" Driver "nv" Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection I used debconf to remove the "UseFBDev" option, and everything came up fine. Thanks, Ada

Re: New debian install, XFree86 cannot detect mouse

2002-12-24 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:54:23PM -0800, Adam wrote: > Hi I just installed debian and X, and X cannot detect my mouse. There > is no /dev/mouse. what kind of mouse do you have? usb? ps2? busmouse? afaik /dev/mouse is actually just a symlink to your mouse of choice, like /dev/cdrom is a symli

Re: New debian install, XFree86 cannot detect mouse

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Adam said: > Hi I just installed debian and X, and X cannot detect my mouse. There > is no /dev/mouse. > > Adam /dev/mouse is just a symlink to the real device. What kind of mouse do you have? PS/2 are at /dev/psaux, and serial are at /dev/ttySx. I've never played

Re: New Debian Install

1998-10-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug Dine wrote: > > Hi, > > I am preparing to install Debian for the first time. I am going to place it > on my slave drive. > I run Win 95 and it of course is located on the master drive. Is there any > chance of > damaging that partition when doing the install being as it's located on > ano