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Author Ubuntu Install: No Mouse and No X
HaroldWho

2005-10-24, 9:42 am


I just installed Ubuntu 4.10 from CD as practice before migrating to a
Debian distro from SuSE. Yeah, I know 5.10 is out now :-)

I did a default install, and then an 'expert' install.

Aside from the issue of getting a ton of Python stuff, neither my video card
(an old RIVA TNT 2, model 64) nor my plain PS2 wheelmouse work.

Any attempt to go to X results in a freeze and black screen. Likewise,
running XFree86 -configure followed by a test of the new config. The
existing XFree config file uses the onboard Intel graphics chipset.

During both installs, I was never asked to config an X server or a console
mouse.

So far I find the Debian Way a little obscure.

HaroldWho
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