[plug] Any PLUGers at the UCC meeting on Friday?

[Bernard Blackham]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:26:25AM +0800, Sacha Schlegel wrote:
> came with the APC magazine. We ended up copying the 7 original debian
> cds version 3.0r1

In all reality, you really only need the first 3 CDs for 99% of
things. For the oddball packages on the remaining 4, its probably
not worth burning but just downloading when you need them.

> > The laptop is an Acer Travelmate 280, P4, 2ghz (about 4 times faster
> > than my old desktop :)

Is it shiny and silver? Or black? I've setup Debian on a couple of
Acer laptops - some had dramas, some didn't.

My TravelMate 529ATX (a black one) went pretty flawlessly. The only
thing that didn't work were the WinModem (no big loss). The touchpad
was a synaptics touchpad (gpm's synps driver didn't work) - I found
a Synaptics driver for X, and packaged it for debian and XFree86 4.2
available from http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/synaptics/. This gives you
scroll regions (on the right & bottom edge) and makes the scroll
buttons work.

I've installed Debian on what I recall was a Travelmate 276???
(shiny and silver).  Because it was so new, the video drivers hadn't
been created yet.  IIRC, the chipset for the video card was a new
SiS-something. The drivers are now in XFree86 4.3 - so if you've got
one of these, then you'll probably want to grab the 4.3 debs from
http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~dstone/xfree86/

The soundcard also had driver troubles - but the troubles were just
in selecting the right driver (can't remember what was settled on,
but it wasn't intuitive).

If the laptop has little launchkeys up the top, then I have a
package that will let you use them too - drop me an email and I'll
try and dig it up.

I won't be able to make it to UCC tonight, but I'll more likely be
there on Monday week for the workshop.

Good luck!

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham 
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