On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:10:41 +0100 Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've had bad experiences with Kubuntu myself. I convinced my > > brother to try it, but it would freeze at loading KDE. He was > > pretty disappointed and gave up. Now I want to give it another try > > with etch as I am more experienced and I know Debian much better > > anyway. > > Such freezing at KDE start may be a typical hardware problem. For Or incomplete/buggy/broken drivers > example, my brother has a really broken sound chip on his laptop and > there was similar freezing when the start sound was to be played. > > In such cases, changing the distro won't help you much. A newer version might bring new drivers/workarounds. It's been more than a year (and he had a SATA system). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]