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 pine acroread pine a2ps gv emacs21 xemacs21 xfig tetex-bin tetex-extra tetex-doc gfortran g++ gcc g77 make
- Specific to this laptop: 915resolution knetworkmanager ksynaptics
- call knetworkmanager
- call 915resolution -l, this sets up the correct screen resolution ksynaptics
- Install scisoft:
cd / ; scp -r ott@irmail:/afs/mpe/i386_linux24/scisoft6.1 . ; mv scisoft6.1 scisoft
/etc/X11/xorg.conf: Add to Section Monitor