On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:40:44PM EST, Preston Boyington wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:25:38PM EST, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > >[..] > > > >I do realize that the above is likely offered more as a workaround than > >a solution, but .. > <snipped> > > After several installs and attempts to correct this issue I have finally > installed "stable" and upgraded everything BUT "x" related > fonts/servers/etc to "testing". Currently everything is working like it > should graphically, but this is an awful way to get around this problem.
What's "awful" is the situation you ran into before you found this very practical workaround. I did run into a bunch of issues when I went from sarge to etch but nothing like what you described in your earlier post. Personally, I don't believe in .. "apt-get upgrade" .. I do a net install of the new release on separate partitions .. patiently migrate my stuff .. and switch when and ONLY when I know for sure that everything that matters actually works. Heck, likely I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer .. but last time it took me over a year to get my internet connection to work on the new system. :-( The good thing is that while this "upgrade" method can be a little time-consuming .. the tradeoff is that I get to know my system a lot better. :-) > I have placed a screenshot on my site that shows this: > > http://prestonboyington.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/badxonhplaptopscreenshot.png Unless your religion forbids, you may want to install quality screen fonts such as Microsoft's Verdana .. Tahoma .. et al for a nicer cleaner look. As much as I dislike anything M$ .. nothing beats the top quality fonts that money bought. I'm a very occasional user of Microsoft products but from the little I have seen this is the ONLY thing M$ did better than everybody else. > (the screenshot is of an Ubuntu screen, but Debian does the same) > > Also, how can I tell what modules are being used for the internal > wireless. The Ubuntu disk I used properly configured the wireless > PCMCIA card and the internal wireless so I want to see what it used. > Debian will eventually show you that there are wireless networks > available (using the PCMCIA card), but you can't connect to any of them. > Given that stable and testing both enabled the card during the > install, I find it strange that it doesn't work after reboot. I figure > its just a module that I haven't loaded. Mine was a plain old wired NIC and getting it to work was what took me a year .. see above. And yes.. as it turned out, it was my fault .. if I had read the doc, all the doc and nothing but .. I might have found the solution in a matter of hours/days. But as a dilettante user I never imagined in the first place that what worked with "sarge" out-of-the-box would not work likewise with "etch" .. fonts or nic's .. do we see a pattern here ..? cf. debian bug 352758 for details. > Thanks everyone. Well thanks to _you_ for bringing up this font issue. I hope you find the time and motivation to figure out a "real" solution to your/our problem .. and the time to report and document accordingly. cga PS. Folks, please note, this is not debian-bashing .. no way! :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
