Annoyances with Debian Potato TC 2

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

I have now have a Debian Potato Test-Cycle 2 system up and running.

Here are my problems with the installation.

   First I installed the system using the simple method, but I gave that
   up as it was impossible to uninstall emacs in a easy way as so many
   packages depended on it. I don't use emacs and don't want it on my
   system either :-)

   Also I choose "none" when the I was asked what kind of keyboard I had
   (as I didn't have one of those listed and the description said to
   choose one then). That resulted in that I was unable to answer Y when
   Debian asked if I wanted to proceed in the installation. I had to
   reboot and run dselect manually.

   I did it all over again this time choosing advanced and plucked the
   packages I wanted to install. This worked better.

   dpkg reported an error code (1) for these packages, I don't know why
   (I'm new to Debian though not Linux and not very familiar with dpkg)

   libxml-dom-perl
   docbk-cml2x
   gs
   ghostview
   pstotext
   docbook
   docbook-stylesheets
   docbook-xml
   docbook2man
   expat
   gv
   jade
   jadetex

   Later I got also:

   docbk-xml2x
   Installation script returned error exit status 100

   Mouse in X is problematic. One have to shut down gpm to get it to
   work. I have a Logitech 3-button PS/2 mouse nothing fancy. 

   The rutine for determining which videocard one has said (as RedHat
   6.0 also did) that S3V was the driver for my STB Nitro 3D card, but
   XF86Setup says it is SVGA which works. RedHat 6.0 uses S3V so I guess
   there has been a change in the newer xfree86, but not a subsequent
   update in the routine to check which driver one needs.

   I have M$ Natural keyboard. When choosing this and pressing Apply in
   XF86Setup, I was unable to use the keyboard in the program. I had to
   set it back to a 102 keyboard.

   w3m-ssl segfaults on https on the second try to access a such link.
   I don't know if this is a setup problem or if there is a bug with
   w3m.
   
   
Other than that I like debian very much. 
-- 
Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- <http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/>
                "Potato is good for you. Visit http://www.debian.org";


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