[ale] gdm crashes my laptop

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

John Heim wrote:
> Hi, I have a problem with gdm. I'm blind and I never used the linux GUI. I 
> know nothing about gnome. I installed debian etch/stable  on a laptop  and 
> allowed it to install the desktop environment. That seemed to work. But then 
> I had to upgrade to lenny/testing to get the new gnome screen reader, orca, 
> to install.

I don't know if this will help you, but if you want to run debian 
testing there is no need to install stable and then dist-upgrade. You 
can install testing directly using the cd images from 
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ . Also, you can often 
install packages from testing without a dist-upgrade; see "How to
keep a mixed system" at 
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html

-Brian