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Old 09-04-2005, 12:38 PM   #1
n0kturnal
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Question Hardware ?? detection??


I'm fairly new to debian and it seems to me that debian doesn't do that good of a job detecting the hardware. I wanted to ask if there are any appz that need to be install so that the process can go as nice and easy as possible like for installing x-window-system. I ran across a page that said to install first discover, mdetect , and read-edid before x-window-system but that didn't do any good. I running debian on my Toshiba a65 laptop...

 
Old 09-04-2005, 10:13 PM   #2
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