On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 20:52 -0900, kristen wrote: > Luk, > > I wanted to thank you for the welcome. And also for pointing me to the > PPC smp kernel, which is now installed. Now I have only 1 other problem > to resolve. I haven't had the time to do a web search yet for others who > have this problem. Basically, my icons disappear and reappear when my > mouse points to where they should be. Or up on the toolbar the icon > place holder might have a yellow background which disappears when I pass > the mouse over it. Some selectable areas of an application might be a > funky lavender color until I place the mouse over it, then it becomes > blue, or maybe not. Its all so random. But I have Debian running on a > PPC!! I'm so cool.. > > Alison, I would love to know where you found the Debconf video. That > might be fun to view. I would hope for some more insight to the whole > Debian thing and what we as women are doing. > > Kristen >
I thought I might mention that today I fixed my graphics problem. Not that 'I' fixed it, I only found how to fix it. My graphics card is an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Mac Edition) and requires a kernel loaded firmware. It seems that such firmware is provided by a repository which is 'non-free'. It also appears that my default Debian install does not include such a repository. After hours of reading web pages via a search I found where Debian keeps it's repository info and I was able to add this repository in. After using this thing called 'aptitude' I was able to install the firmware. A reboot later as a new kernel was installed all appears well. I guess I have much to learn about Debian. Especially your package management system. And whatever aptitude is (a package manager I know). I think this is going to be a long road for me.. *sigh* Kristen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1330213623.1880.8.camel@debian
