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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