From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.1??
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 20:30:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030308202102.01f6ed30@celine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303090415.h294F6PX003541@pyxis.wanadoo.be>
At , Heimo Claasen wrote:
[...]
>(It's a drag with Debian, where you get the [typically wrong] result
>only after the whole installation procedure and after starting X; or
>rather, after failing to get somewhere then. And in addition, there are
>real nuisances built-in there: the value to enter for video RAM _must_
>be given wrong in order to get a right result; or, the [screen]
>"modules" default would most certainly result in failure, while there's
>not the least meaningful indication which choices would be appropriate.
>Sheer horror this, can make you waste days on end without getting the
>specific combo of card/monitor to work ever in its best way. The Mdk
>procedure is way ahead.)
Hoiw recently have you done a Debian install of X, and what version of
Debian were you using? (And what installation method were you using?
dselect? apt?) My experience with X on Debian has been nothing like what
you describe, not ever, and I've been installing Debian systems (Slink,
Potato, Woody, and Sid) for several years now. The only problem I have ...
unless I'm doing something eccentric that requires VERY non-standard X
configuration (like accessing TV-out on a video card that supplies it) ...
is that Debian installs always assume you want to use xdm, not run x from a
console using startx, so I usually have to disable that "feature" by hand.
The latest setup dialog is, to my eye, very slick and reliable.
Not being a Mandrake user, I cannot speak to the *relative* merits of the
two installers, of course.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-09 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-09 0:00 Mandrake 8.1?? Heimo Claasen
2003-03-09 4:30 ` Ray Olszewski [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-06 20:14 Hal MacArgle
2003-03-06 22:02 ` James Miller
2003-03-07 12:40 ` ichi
2003-03-07 14:57 ` James Miller
2003-03-07 15:15 ` raihan
2003-03-07 15:42 ` James Miller
2003-03-07 20:55 ` Hal MacArgle
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