Re: [LUG] Help the aged

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ray Smith wrote:
> I'm glad I'm not the only one, not that I.m glad you're having problems of
> course !

My Debian install works fine apart from XFree86 resolution (and
ATI driver bug) and sound (which works after a fashion), so
you're definitely not alone.

I'm going to pull my old XF86Config-4 from backup and try that,
something seems seriously screwy with Woody and my laptop,
although I remember one of the other distro's took a lot of
convincing my Laptop screen can handle more than 800x600.

> My problem is that when I try to use dselect I am merrily choosing packages
> then I must be doing something wrong because a whole list of packages
> suddenly scrolls up the screen followed by imformation that the following
> packages are going to be removed from the system, most of them ones I can't
> remember choosing as I thought I was choosing additional stuff and items I'm
> told will be removed include Xfree86 !

Hmm - I just went through tasksel and picked a minimal
workstation setting, you can always add or remove stuff later,
the install even tells you how to rerun tasksel dselect (which
is by typing tasksel or dselect if I remembers correctly).

Better still you can use "apt" command line directly which is a
lot cleaner, or one of the GUI installers if you manage to get
Xfree86 in.

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