Hi all, I've recently tried out Debian (woody) and was very impressed. I'm new to debian, but not Linux/GNU. I've lived with various distributions in the past, Slakware, Redhat, then SuSE.
I found myself with a few problems under debian, for example getting my usb keyboard and mouse working. I know how to hack them into submission, but I'm sure it's not done it the "Debian way". I'm missing /dev entires for most usb devices, I get the impression there must be a .deb for this ? keybdev also needs to be modprobed (so I added it to /etc/modules). (I'm running kernel 2.4.x)
I have many other little niggles, so I guess I should RTM.
Anyway, my question is:
Is there a good website/book that is aimed at experienced users who wish to migrate from other distributions to Debian?
Thanks,
Mike
On 12 Feb 2002, Mike Lincoln wrote:
I found myself with a few problems under debian, for example getting my usb keyboard and mouse working. I know how to hack them into submission, but I'm sure it's not done it the "Debian way".
Not sure if there's a debian-specific way... I just followed the instructions on the linux usb web site.
/dev entires for most usb devices, I get the impression there must be a .deb for this ? keybdev also needs to be modprobed (so I added it to /etc/modules). (I'm running kernel 2.4.x)
Hrm... yup, again, I just created these by hand. If you were running Potato I'd understand the missing USB stuff, but it OUGHT to be there for Woody....
Is there a good website/book that is aimed at experienced users who wish to migrate from other distributions to Debian?
Hrm. There's all manner of docs on www.debian.org and the debian mailing lists are not too bad, but I don't know of anything else.
Andrew.
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:26, Andrew Savory wrote:
On 12 Feb 2002, Mike Lincoln wrote:
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Hrm... yup, again, I just created these by hand. If you were running Potato I'd understand the missing USB stuff, but it OUGHT to be there
for
Woody....
That's what made me think I was doing something wrong. Oh well, makenod here I come.
Thanks, Mike
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