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Last week sometime I was trying to fix my monitor issue with Kubuntu, and X11 stopped working. This was not too big of a surprise as that is what I was hacking on, but from that point on I was unable to get X to start. #^$% it, thought I, and install Debian Sarge:

• Bluetooth worked fine, I just had to install a non-free package. ☹
• The older version of KDE has a different icon for Dvorak and US keyboard. Yea!
• I’m no longer loose the bottom centimeter of the screen.
• My digital camera worked out of the box with Debian KDE’s Kamera.

Downsides include:

• No cute KDE GUI for Bluetooth.
• Needed to boot Debians kernel with acpi=off, thought apm seems to work.

I’m just wonder if my Kubunu problem will return when Debian Etch gets released.

Today, I read that the issues that put me over the top might of not been my fault. I always did upgrades as soon as I noticed them, and I remember playing with the packages before I started playing with the X11 settings. While the upgrade issue has been fixed this problem happened just about at the peek of my frustration. A few years ago Debian has a similar issue that made the system unbootable, so I can’t single out Ubuntu for this mistake.

So much for my soirée with Kubuntu.