>From looking at the build on updates.laptop.org, it looks to me like
there is no password set for root. In any case, the debian build is
rather old; you will get better results by repeating the steps at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_Debian_as_an_upgrade
This will ensure you get the latest kernel, firmware, etc.
--scott
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