Debian woes

["Adam Shirey" <aeshirey@xxxxxxx>]

Ah, poo.
Everything was running fine on my other computer, so I started on mine (it
was time to get rid of Slack anyways; I want to check out various distros
just to see what's out there). It installed okay, but I have two issues in
particular that are annoying me.

First and foremost, when I startx, it brings up KDE. That's fine, but I'm a
GNOME man. (It should be noted here that when it started KDE, it brought up
the KDE gears and shortly thereafter died.) So I ran gdm (which, of course,
only root wants to do, so I ran as root). It started up the gdm fine, but I
had no mouse and no keyboard. I couldn't enter my username, couldn't go
through the menus, switch to a different console, or even CTRL-ALT-DEL out.
(I hope I don't have to fsck when I go back; I'm in Windows right now).

If I can get that solved, the only other problem is that my mouse didn't
work when I started getting into KDE (before it quit). It's USB, but I
didn't get the option to select it as such. I then did something to the
effect of "apt-update", then in dselect, found four different USB options,
three of which (IIRC) were for developers. I chose the other, it downloaded
and installed it, but, of course, I couldn't get into GNOME.

Any thoughts? Not too bad, I guess, for my second install, considering it
took more troubleshooting to get Slack working properly.


-Adam
aeshirey@xxxxxxx
If you fork your child processes, you'll have to wait on their zombies when
they die.
-Perl Documentation


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Carmean" <tecarmea@xxxxxxx>
To: <lug-l@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: I'm geeked


> you will prolly notice a significant slowdown from slack to debian because
> slack is compiled from source and debian downloads precompiled i386
> binaries.  if this is a problem for you i would recommend gentoo.  it
takes
> a long time to install because absolutely everything is compiled from
source
> but it is true i686 architechure.  for comparison sake i installed gentoo
on
> a 333mhz celeron with 256mb ram.  gnome2 on the gentoo box ran faster than
> regular ol gnome on my debian box (p2-400 with 360 ram).  only reason i
> didnt switch to gentoo on my machine is because i dont trust it for a
server
> quite yet.  i just figured i'd give you some insight on a fairly slick
> distro.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org
>
> tim
>
> PS:  lug ftp online: ftp://chong.resnet.mtu.edu