Installing on Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop.
Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz
60 GB Fujitsu MHS2060AT hard drive.
2 MB RAM
NVIDEA GeForce 4200 Go Display Adapter
Installing 7.7.0 Wheezy from a purchased LinuxCollections
DVD #1. I used default installation
choices except as noted below.
“Graphical Install” stopped after “Detect Network Hardware”, “Expert Graphical
Install” did the same. Finally skipping these steps allowed
completion. Specific drivers for this
laptop only was chosen. The default Software
was installed. The default Grub
installer was chosen. Installation was completed.
Booting system from hard drive: Odd cursors and multiple arrow cursors appear
during and after boot. After login an
odd double arrow cursor appears (sometimes the double arrows are superimposed
and look almost like a single arrow) and a Debian Spiral Desktop appears in
about 15 seconds. Later (about 10
seconds) my user name icon and my user name (with some letters missing)
appears in the upper right hand corner. Right
clicking on it brings up a menu (also with letters missing). I can power off
from this menu. Right or left clicking in the upper left
corner brings a windows / applications menu and a stack of icons on the
left. Left clicking on the Applications
button adds a grid of large icons. Sometimes
I can get an application window to open but it is just a dark blue rectangle
and sometimes the cursor just spins and blinks and then stops with no window
and a moveable but useless cursor – can’t even use it to power off. Sometimes
the display goes to blank blue
windows and background.
Any suggestions for repair?
