On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:26:19 +0000, d922989 R.Grant@uea.ac.uk wrote:
Dear All, having joined this list a few weeks ago I am at last getting around to saying 'hello'.
Hi!
I only started with Linux in December 2004. Maybe in desperation for some visible nuts and bolts, I have ignored advice about difficulty and gone straight for Debian (3.0 r3). I've got a dual boot working with XP as I only have the one machine which I do a lot of UEA work on. The machine is a Thinkpad T22 from ebay. Possibly because of this I've got nowhere with X so far but I'll get there one day.
X should work on the T22 - works fine on the T20 and R40e. Two tips: 1. Try a 'Live' CD - these are very good at auto-detecting everything, and you can make notes from the verbose output. 2. Move straight on to Debian 3.1 Testing (Sarge), because it is quite stable and the apps are all much more recent (Firefox 1.0!) Some would probably recommend another step even closer to the cutting edge by installing the latest Ubuntu.
Have fun! Tim.