Dell Latitude D620, wide-screen display 1440x900, Intel I945

• Boot alternate installation from Kubuntu-edgy CD
• Copy sources.list: sudo -i; cd /etc/apt;

wget http://debian.mpe.mpg.de/sources.list-edgy; mv sources.list-edgy sources.list; aptitude update

• aptitude install openssh-server linux-generic
• Install these additional packages:

vim rsync sun-java5-jre libncurses4 man-db manpages iamerican tcsh fvwm ftp jpeg2ps tivsm-ba a2ps ncompress xv saods9 gimp tcsh firefox mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews acroread pine a2ps gv emacs21 xemacs21 xfig tetex-bin tetex-extra tetex-doc gfortran g++ gcc g77 make

• More packages (since gutsy):

xterm sm g++-3.4

• Specific to this laptop: 915resolution knetworkmanager ksynaptics
• call 915resolution -l, this sets up the correct screen resolution. Then reboot.
• login
• call knetworkmanager
• Install scisoft:

sudo -i; Then either put in the scisoft CD and do cd / ; tar -xvzf /media/cdrom0/scisoft-trunk.tar.gz or cd /tmp ; ftp ir-serv1; cd /raid5/kubuntu; bi; get scisoft-7.0.0.tar.gz; bye; cd /; tar -xvzf tmp/scisoft-7.0.0.tar.gz

• /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Add to Section Monitor

IDL segfaults on this machine when trying to open a graphics window. To solve this, disable hardware 3D acceleration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

• # Load "glx"