[Falkirk] next meeting

[Jonathan Riddell]

On 16 Mar 2003, Nick Hockings - FreeNET Africa wrote:

> Debian Woody aka 3.0 (ie the current stable) does help a fair amount even
> with X. (Super-probe is availale during X configuration, and your hardware
> options are presented as menus. The graphics of the install program are
> guaranteed to work on terminals, and so are plug ugly. Once X is installed
> it is a pretty as X always is.)
>
> It is best if you have all you hardware documentation to hand, you can
> also extract quite a bit of info browsing an M$ installation. A good place
> to get an XF86config that you know will work is to copy it from a live-CD
> distro eg DemoLinux or Knoppix, both of which are Debian based.
>
> One way of installing a Debian variant is to install eg Knoppix and then
> add any extra apps from your favourite Debian apt-proxy. This makes
> workstation functionality very easy to set up. (If only it would deal with
> my Alcatel!)

Being powerpc though, none of the above work.  I ended up having to adapt
an XFree86 config file I found on the web.

> I have a recent copy of Knoppix from UKUUG I'll bring along. (Nice 100%
> free software :-)

Knoppix isn't 100% Free Software, it includes some non-Free software.

Jonathan Riddell

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