Debian Testing on the Netbook

As expected, it did not last long Ubuntu on the netbook that I am using now, and it is almost the same thing that happens to me when I use Microsoft Windows, I don't feel complete.

Maybe it is because with Debian I control a little more what I install and what I need, and that is precisely one of the reasons why I love the philosophy of ArchLinux, where you install just what you need without having to drag unnecessary packages.

I confess that I was quite surprised, because I thought I would spend some work or other configuring some things (such as the connection card Wifi) but I was wrong, everything was working the first time and so far, I have not had any problems.

There are still many things that I have to learn to configure, since I have been adapted all my life to PCs and with Laptops things are completely different. One of the details that I have to correct is the way the typeface is displayed, since it does not look the same as on my old computer. Although maybe it has to be like that, but since I have no experience in these things, maybe I'm wrong.

After install Debian Testing y Xfce 4.8, I added the repositories of Debian-Experimental and updated Xfce installing the version 4.10 and everything works wonders. I don't understand what those packages do even in Experimental.

The only problem I have with Xfce (the same thing happened to me in Xubuntu) is that when using some key combinations like [Alt] + [F1, F2, F3, F4], my desktop freezes, having to press these keys again so that everything continues to work. Checking in the system logs I get this error:

atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xab on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e02b <keycode>' to make it known.

So please, if anyone has had this kind of problem and can help me, I will be more than grateful. If there is any use to know, these keys are the options for adjusting the screen brightness. The weird thing is that it only happens to me with Xfce.

Well, nothing .. that's what there is 😀


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  1.   seadx6 said

    Great elav, good article, I hope that rope philosophy being applied in both Arch and Debian 🙂

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      Thanks ^^
      What happens that in DebianMany meta-packages are still being dragged. In this sense, Arch is much more dynamic.

  2.   Merlin The Debianite said

    Well, I don't have much experience with netbooks and it never crossed my mind to put debian on a laptop, I always used debian for PCs.

    And linuxmint (This shows how new I am) in laptops because after installation you don't have to do anything, although I'm a little curious, maybe try debiancut on my vaio.

    Thanks for the info.

  3.   Greenux said

    Debian is and will forever be a favorite distro 😀

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      I think we are two U_U

      1.    Merlin the Debianite said

        we are 3 XD

      2.    Marco said

        in my opinion, it is next to Chakra, my favorite distro !!!

  4.   Mauritius said

    The one that is of one color, no matter how much others paint it, will always be. When the favorite distro is found, the others never measure up.

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      +10

    2.    Marco said

      true!!!

  5.   Manual of the Source said

    It was to be expected that you would not last, after seeing the weak justifications you gave for using Ubuntu: "I have very little time", "I do not have much experience with this type of devices", "I can not experiment". Pfff, as if someone who's been using Debian for years gave a damn about any of those things, hahaha.

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      They are not weak excuses, they are just that, excuses .. Well, nothing, I couldn't stand it hahaha

  6.   Carlos-Xfce said

    Hi Elav. If we lived nearby, I would pay you (and very well) to install Debian with Xfce 4.10 on my netbook and get it working perfectly. I would like to learn how to do it, but my impression is that it is very complicated and takes a long time.

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      Hahahaha, I just installed Debian Testing with Xfce, then I added the repositories of Experimental, I updated the packages from Synaptic (Xfce only) and later I deleted again Experimental. Ready.

      1.    Oscar said

        What are the XFCE packages to install from Experimental ?. I am glad that you are back to Debian.

        1.    elav <° Linux said

          These are the packages that I currently have installed:

          i A gtk2-engines-xfce - GTK+-2.0 theme engine for Xfce
          i A libxfce4ui-1-0 - widget library for Xfce
          i A libxfce4ui-utils - Utility files for libxfce4ui
          i libxfce4util-bin - tools for libxfce4util
          i libxfce4util-common - common files for libxfce4util
          i A libxfce4util4 - Utility functions library for Xfce4
          i A libxfce4util6 - Utility functions library for Xfce4
          i libxfcegui4-4 - Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4
          i xfce-keyboard-shortcuts - xfce keyboard shortcuts configuration
          i xfce4 - Meta-package for the Xfce Lightweight Desk
          i A xfce4-appfinder - Application finder for the Xfce4 Desktop E
          i A xfce4-clipman - clipboard history utility
          i xfce4-clipman-plugin - clipboard history plugin for Xfce panel
          i A xfce4-mixer - Xfce mixer application
          i A xfce4-notifyd - simple, visually-appealing notification da
          i A xfce4-panel - panel for Xfce4 desktop environment
          i xfce4-places-plugin - quick access to folders, documents and rem
          i xfce4-power-manager - power manager for Xfce desktop
          i A xfce4-power-manager-data - power manager for Xfce desktop, arch-indep
          i xfce4-screenshooter - screenshots utility for Xfce
          i A xfce4-session - Xfce4 Session Manager
          i A xfce4-settings - graphical application for managing Xfce se
          i xfce4-taskmanager - process manager for the Xfce4 Desktop Envi
          i xfce4-terminal - Xfce terminal emulator
          i A xfce4-volumed - volume keys daemon

          And of course, those related to Exo, Tumbler and Thunar.

          1.    Oscar said

            Thanks for the info, I'll see if I'm lucky in the adventure.

    2.    KZKG ^ Gaara said

      HAHAHAHA but still being far away you can do it 😀… using SSH on your computer elav can install whatever you want haha

  7.   yio said

    Friend, you who are a fan of knowing and controlling, I recommend gentoolo I have on a net and believe me that it flies, regarding your problem you have an error with the keys of your lap I recommend xev to know the letter codes and create a keymap with the keys another less complicated occion install setxkbmap and run a keymap according to the language of your keyboard

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      Gentoo is very complicated for my time hehehe. About setxkbmap I was seeing something like that, but could you tell me how I do for the keyboard in American English with Dead Keys? Thank you and welcome

      1.    KZKG ^ Gaara said

        For the keyboard in ENG with dead keys, I learned how to do it with Arch hehe:
        setxkbmap us -variant intl

        It's that simple 🙂

      2.    TheSandman86 said

        What I did to be able to have the English keyboard and be able to use the «ñ» and the accents was to modify the / etc / default / keyboard file so that it looks like this:
        [code] XKBMODEL = »pc105 ″
        XKBLAYOUT = »us»
        XKBVARIANT = »altgr-intl»
        XKBOPTIONS = »lv3: ralt_switch, terminate: ctrl_alt_bksp»
        [/ Code]

  8.   Diego Campos said

    Hello elav, the post is very interesting, but what problems do you have with fonts?

    Cheers(:

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      I don't see them as pretty as on a normal monitor. I don't know, the smoothing doesn't look the same.

      1.    Diego Campos said

        ahh ... ok I know what you mean, do you know if you can install the "gnome-tweak-tool" package in xfce? since with it, you can change the smoothing of the fonts, in the 'fonts' section where it says "hinting" you select "slight" and it is supposed to look good, the same thing happened to me when I used fedora 16 and with that trick it improves the 100 smoothing.

        Cheers(:

        1.    elav <° Linux said

          Well, I think I have corrected the font smoothing thing. I just had to put this in the terminal:

          echo "Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault" > ~/.Xresources

          And it seems to me that it looks much better 😀

          1.    Diego Campos said

            Good thing you solved it, sometimes the default font smoothing is not always the best: B

            Cheers(:

  9.   mac_live said

    Good to return to Debian and more in testing, hey I want to try debian testing, butooo being honest, as I'm more used to fedora which is the one I use every day except on weekends that I work with some photoshop stuff I can run it with wine but it is very encouraged), I want to try your debian testing for a while, will you be able to guide me and thus be able to put the debian in the filth? I did not find a download that convinced me on the debian page, because it did not feel so clear. Thank you

    1.    Greenux said

      I recommend you install the normal stable version and then upgrade to testing by changing the repositories. at least that's how I do once I download an iso test and it didn't work for me X_X

      1.    mac_live said

        Exactly to me if that happened to me lol he told me that he could not install the busybox, and I could not continue the installation. Cheers

  10.   Lex.RC1 said

    Good, I did not install the wireles network but he had the detail of telling me «we have recognized the wifi network but we need in fireware noseque.bin to make it work, I copied it to the pendrive and that's it ^ _ ^

    That fund is brutal! could you please upload it.

    regards
    aka: 2.3d

      1.    Lex.RC1 said

        They paint very well, I'm going to download more than one ...

        Thank you very much KZKG ^ Gaara

        1.    KZKG ^ Gaara said

          Thanks to you 🙂

  11.   Maty said

    I still use debian wheezy on a netbook. I had quite a few Dramas with the wifi board, and I could hardly use it in Ubuntu. But I changed it and put it in an old computer, of which I am now using windows because I need it for some things, at least for now.
    I use it with desktop lxde, it goes well. But I think that more comfortable for netbooks is the gnome desktop with shell or with unity, which I have tried. But finally I changed it to lxde for consuming too many resources.
    Although I would like to try a distro that comes directly for netbooks, if possible a derivative of debian.