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On Monday 15 November 2004 6:58 pm, Tony Sumner wrote:
From: Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>By the sounds of it, one thing I neglected to mention was that the entire Package List is always available on Debian: $ apt-cache search xserverThat is true but it assumes you know what to look for.
Not necessarily. It will search the package descriptions as well. Search for 'mail' and the screen scrolls passed again and again. Add a second search term and you can get a more refined search - like a boolean AND on other search engines like Google. apt-cache search mail kde brings up a much smaller list of packages that have descriptions that contain both 'mail' and 'KDE'. Once you have the package name from a search list, apt-cache show will give a lot more detail: apt-cache show gnupg - shows package sizes, maintainer details, the full package description, dependencies, conflicts, version, even the md5sum. Partnering apt-cache search with apt-cache show and grep can make for extremely productive searches.
Maybe it is too difficult to install at home and you have to go to an install-fest.
Not true, thankfully.
My first port of call in ALL such situations is Knoppix. If Knoppix works, Debian will work, it's all down to the config. With a working Knoppix XF86Config, you're half-way home.Only halfway :-)?
Yes, because you still have to transfer the relevant X settings to the other installation - you can't usually copy the entire file.
But what sort of XF86Config problem would cause the keyboard to go into a coma?
The kind of keyboard is defined in XF86Config - 101key, 105key etc. Check that first. Backup your existing XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) and then run xf86config as root. One of the first questions is keyboard details. You can fluff the rest of it, just let it save the final file and compare the keyboard settings. xf86config gets into all kinds of details of refresh rates and sync rates of monitors and unless you know these, it can be more confusing than it is worth. Just use it to help solve this keyboard problem for now. Is it a USB keyboard? Wireless? More detail is required to fix that kind of problem. Google is your friend, put in the model number/type of the keyboard and Debian. If it's ordinary PS/2, check the keyboard language. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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