Guest xarzu Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Hello Forum! I have started out on a Linux journey. I have a very old ChemBook laptop computer that had had Windows 95 on it. The world (the on-line world, in particular) had advanced to the point where this laptop was really no longer useful. So I had been thinking that this was a good chance to start learning Linux. Then a project had developed at work where some other programmers had decided to start using Debian. So I started attempting to install Debian. This did not go very smoothly. The latest version of Debian (Etch) did not agree immediately with my video hardware. I struggled with this for a while and eventually decided to give Mepis a shot. This worked. Now I am thinking that once I get some other hardware issue resolved I might switch again after I learn more about Linux. So this is where I am now. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Welcome aboard. :) What video card does that laptop have? In Debian you will have to install the xorg-modules for several video-drivers, otherwise it won't start the graphical desktop. Post the hardware issues you have and we will deal with them one by one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I think you should try Arctic's suggestion. He's the man to guide you through Mepis is good, but it lacks of a knowledgable community and the software is "old" (both Mepis 6.0 and the new release 6.5 (a few days ago) is based on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 and its repo). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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