[plug] Debian Installation - Sid

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Hey All

I found something interesting with the install of sid.  After getting 
xwindows or kde up and running I thought I would use synaptic and 
upgrade to the 2.6.7 kernel since 2.6.8 is stuffed for writing to cd's 
as a normal user i thought I would upgrade to the next best thing.  Well 
there's a bug with the 2.6.7 kernel that doesn't allow the laptop's 
"ps2" mouse to work under xwindows as far as I know.

I re-checked my xfree86 conf file and nothing had changed.  If I set the 
mouse to the ttys1 port it would work but the mouse wouldn't Kde would 
load up but no mouse.  So I did a little google on the web and found 
that its related to the kernel.  I switched back to the last 2.4 kernel 
or the standard kernel that I installed first and it works fine.  My 
understanding is that the kernel does not have the "synaptics" driver 
installed in it or something like that.  I only just found it out so I'm 
not full bottle on it or even a small amount.  Anyways the touchpad for 
some reason under sid 2.6.7 didn't work for me.

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/dollinger/robert/linux/acer800.html

Thats the link for how to fix it under acer.  I'm assuming its the same 
issue.  As I try more I'll relay whats happened and happens.

Marc

Leon Blackwell wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:54:54PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
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>>Sarge currently doesn't have The Gimp.  This will be fixed by the time
>>sarge is released, but until then, you can always grab gimp from sid.
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>Sarge has gimp 1.2 (packaged as gimp1.2), but not 2.0.  If you want, you
>can just grab 2.0 from sid (it works just fine like that).
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>Other than that, I can't see why most people would *need* sid instead of
>sarge at the moment.
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