rlwbonsai, 6.05.2013:
I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to
Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor
and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software
installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This laptop has
successfully run Sarge,
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:14:39AM -0400, rlwbonsai wrote:
I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to
Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor
and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software
installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This
-Gnome 3 will not run. Default Gnome is very limited in this
machine.
Make sure Gnome's Classic mode (AKA, fallback mode) is installed. There is a
package for that. Consider installing MATE instead (Google for it.) They
recently released a new version which runs very smoothly. MATE is a
This is my sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot
i386 Binary-1 ( 20060314)]/ etch main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot
i386 Binary-1 (20060314)]/ etch main #deb
http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian squeeze main contrib
Gnome-session-fallback is installed. Classic Gnome is in the
login menu. My comments relate to that.
Not sure what you mean by 'default profile'. My guess
is ~/.bashrc since I don't have a ~/.profile. I think the
relevant section of ~/.bashrc is:
# enable color support of ls and also add
Gnome-session-fallback is installed. Classic Gnome is in the
login menu. My comments relate to that.
Not sure what you mean by 'default profile'. My guess
is ~/.bashrc since I don't have a ~/.profile. I think the
relevant section of ~/.bashrc is:
# enable color support of ls and also
Thanks. The Gnome terminal is now usable in XFCE. Can't check
rxvt because trying to start rxvt crashes X. Trying to start it
a second time, after logging in from the first crash, crashed
the system. I like rxvt from past experience but it seems not
to be an option in Wheezy. I really, really
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