Dear Gary, I would like to reply to your posting at the Debian Mailinglist but since I do not know how to do I write to you personally.
I just bought the Desknote A928 and I have similar problems as you. Concerning the first one, adding the boot paramater "video=vga16:off" helps in my case. I do not know what this paramter does and why it does not work without. Without that parameter the system switsches to 80x30 console, thus the last five lines are missing and some letters on the left. I found this hint on page 53 of the guide "Installing Debian..." Do you know of any webpage containing a list of all kernel parameters ? Concerning the XServer, I did not manage to start it even after commenting out with "#" the line " Load "extmod" ". I think I will try to install Red Hat Linux or the included ThizLinux, maybe that works better. Good luck with Linux, Klaus PS If you want you can publish my reply on the webpage http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200211/msg00282.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org * Subject: Debian install for i-Buddie Desknote * From: Gary Moselen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:49:19 +1300 * Old-return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have an i-Buddie Desknote laptop and had a few issues installing Debian from the Woody release. Firstly, when booting the default image from the CD the dbootstrap program would display incorrectly, the 4 leftmost characters were not displayed and the bottom characters "wrapped" around to the top of the screen. I suspect this was something to do with terminal settings. When booting from the "vanilla" image the dbootstrap program displayed correctly however, and I was able to complete a bootable install. Secondly, when configuring X, it seemed to have difficulty when the default color depth was lower *or* higher than 16-bit. I did have trouble after I had deemed the resolution problems solved however, so whether this was in fact a problem is not proved. Lastly, I could not get the X server to successfully start up while the "extmod" module was being loaded; I don't know what this module does and I did not recieve any useful log message regarding it in the Xfree log file, but through trial and error and manually editing the XF86-Config-4 file I narrowed it down to this module. If anyone has an explanation for these problems, I'd be grateful to know. Gary Moselen Peace Software www.peace.com ________________________________________________________________ email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/people/display/display.php?ID=996
