Debian Squeeze (testing) Installation Log (progress)

My laptop is a bit old model
Samsung R50 WVM 1860


Preparation

• http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/
• http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
• wget -c http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
• cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=1,0,0 debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso

My laptop has "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200", thus I must care about it before starting installation. And I decided not to use wireless, but to use a wired network.  See http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200


Installation & Configuration

• answered all questions what Debian asked me :-)
• one small bug(?) I found is the debian told me he/she found another OS (MS blabla), but the grub 2 doesn't correct add it into the boot menu. I fixed this after login debian later by typing "update-grub" . See the more for GRUB2 http://grub.enbug.org/Manual. One thing I want to say there is no menu.lst file now.
• No scrolling action of TouchPad
  
  1.  kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686 #1

  2. [] modprobe -r psmouse
     [] modprobe psmouse proto=imps

  3. after the above commands, the scrolling action is working. But it is the temporary solution
  4. permanent solution
     [] emace /etc/modprobe.d/touchpad.conf &
         options psmouse proto=imps
  5. reference : see http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad
• xosview has no battery information
• Skype Static installation : See Skype static 
• No xorg.conf file
  I copied my old configuration file into /etc/X11/ directory, but I didn't test dual and extended screen setting. See how to set Xorg.conf  xorg.conf with an external monitor
  

  
  Section "Module"
   Load  "glx"
   Load  "dri"
  EndSection
  
  Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
      Driver        "kbd"
      Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
      Option        "XkbModel"    "pc105"
      Option        "XkbLayout"    "kr"
  EndSection
  
  Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
      Driver        "mouse"
      Option        "CorePointer"
          Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
          Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
          Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
          Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
  EndSection
  
  Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier    "Synaptics Touchpad"
      Driver        "synaptics"
      Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
      Option        "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
      Option        "Protocol"        "auto-dev"
      Option        "HorizEdgeScroll"    "0"
  EndSection
  
  
  Section "Monitor"
      Identifier    "Laptop"
  #    Option        "LeftOf" "DellE177FPf"
      HorizSync    28-64
      VertRefresh    43-60
      Gamma           0.9
      Option        "DPMS" "true"
  EndSection
  
  # cvt 1280 1024
  
  Section "Monitor"
      Identifier    "DellE177FPf"
      # 1280*0.264mm pixel pitch = 339.92
      # 1024*0.264mm pixel pitch = 270.336
  #    DisplaySize    338.67 270.93
      DisplaySize    339.92 270.336
      HorizSync    30-81
      VertRefresh    56-76
      Gamma        0.8
      Modeline "1280x1024_75.00"  135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066  -HSync +Vsync
      Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_75.00"
      Option        "RightOf"    "Laptop"
      Option        "DPMS" "true"
  EndSection 
  
  
  #Section "Monitor"
  #    Identifier    "S-video"
  #    Option        "Ignore"    "true"
  #EndSection
  
  #Section "Monitor"
  #    Identifier    "DVI-0"
  #    Option        "Ignore"    "true"
  #EndSection
  
  
  
  Section "Device"
  Identifier    "Radeon Mobility X700 (RV410 PCIE)"
  #    Driver        "ati"
      Driver "radeon"
      Option        "NoAccel"      "enable"
      Option         "AccelMethod"       "XAA"
      Option         "AccelDFS"      "1"
      Option         "EnablePageFlip"  "on"
      Option         "ColorTiling"       "on"
      BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
      Option        "Monitor-VGA-0"    "DellE177FPf"
      Option        "Monitor-LVDS"    "Laptop"
  EndSection
  
  Section "Screen"
      Identifier    "Default Screen"
      Monitor        "Laptop"
      Device        "Radeon Mobility X700 (RV410 PCIE)"
      DefaultDepth    24
      SubSection "Display"
          Depth        24
  #        Modes        "1280x800" #"1024x768" "800x600"
  #        Virtual        2560 1824
      EndSubSection
  EndSection
  
  Section "ServerLayout"
      Identifier    "Default Layout"
      Screen        "Default Screen"
      InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
      InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
      InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
      Option        "BlankTime"        "10"
      Option        "Standby"        "20"
      Option        "SuspendTime"        "30"
      Option        "OffTime"        "40"
  EndSection
  
  Section "DRI"
          Mode    0666
  EndSection
  
  

• Korean Input
  copied old .scim directory
  

  /DefaultIMEngineFactory/en_US = d75857a5-4148-4745-89e2-1da7ddaf70a9
  /FrontEnd/ChangeFactoryGlobally = false
  /FrontEnd/OnTheSpot = true
  /FrontEnd/SharedInputMethod = false
  /FrontEnd/Socket/ConfigReadOnly = false
  /FrontEnd/Socket/MaxClients = 512
  /FrontEnd/X11/BrokenWchar = true
  /FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic = false
  /FrontEnd/X11/OnTheSpot = true
  /FrontEnd/X11/ServerName = SCIM
  /Hotkeys/FrontEnd/NextFactory = Control+Alt+Down,Shift+Control+KeyRelease+Shift_L,Shift+Control+KeyRelease+Shift_R
  /Hotkeys/FrontEnd/Off =
  /Hotkeys/FrontEnd/On =
  /Hotkeys/FrontEnd/PreviousFactory = Control+Alt+Up,Shift+Control+KeyRelease+Control_L,Shift+Control+KeyRelease+Control_R
  /Hotkeys/FrontEnd/ShowFactoryMenu = Control+Alt+Right
  /Hotkeys/FrontEnd/Trigger = Hangul,Shift+space
  /Hotkeys/FrontEnd/ValidKeyMask = Shift+Control+Alt+CapsLock+Meta+QuirkKanaRo
  /IMEngine/Hangul/CommitByWord = false
  /IMEngine/Hangul/HangulKey = Hangul,Shift+space
  /IMEngine/Hangul/HanjaKey = Hangul_Hanja,F9
  /IMEngine/Hangul/HanjaMode = false
  /IMEngine/Hangul/HanjaModeKey =
  /IMEngine/Hangul/KeyboardLayout = 2
  /IMEngine/Hangul/ShowCandidateComment = false
  /IMEngine/Hangul/UseAsciiMode = false
  /IMEngine/RawCode/Locales = default
  /Panel/Gtk/Color/ActiveBackground = light sky blue
  /Panel/Gtk/Color/ActiveText = black
  /Panel/Gtk/Color/NormalBackground = #F7F3F7
  /Panel/Gtk/Color/NormalText = black
  /Panel/Gtk/DefaultSticked = false
  /Panel/Gtk/Font = UnGungseo 12
  /Panel/Gtk/LookupTableEmbedded = false
  /Panel/Gtk/LookupTableVertical = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ShowStatusBox = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ShowTrayIcon = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/AlwaysHidden = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/AlwaysShow = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/AutoSnap = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/HideTimeout = 2
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/POS_X = 1184
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/POS_Y = 739
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/ShowFactoryIcon = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/ShowFactoryName = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/ShowHelpIcon = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/ShowMenuIcon = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/ShowPropertyLabel = false
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/ShowSetupIcon = true
  /Panel/Gtk/ToolBar/ShowStickIcon = false
  /UpdateTimeStamp = 1247044282:329136
  
  

  
  
• One interesting thing is that with gnome I cannot set "Super" Key, I don't know why people calls this window key as "super", to launch "xterm" in the keyboard shortcut setting. But it works fine with lenney. Whatever, I use FVWM, my old configuration works 100% same as before. I don't care about it.
  
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Impression is biased by my humble point of view

• faster and simpler than Ubuntu (This opinion is biased by my personal view)
• I have to spend more time to be settling down in order to do some productive works :-) But I like to learn "Debian" !!
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Update after several update,  I lost xserver. I tried to fix it, but I failed.. hmmmmmmmmmm

• I like Debian, but why I cannot use it.. Switch to Ubuntu 10.04 beta2
• there is an issue on xorg, but I don't understand it. Oh ati oh debian..... oh linux...