To quote D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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# I have a couple of issues to resolve now with my Debian installation:
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# 1) I commented out the tulip module in /etc/modules, but when I boot
# it still tries to config eth0. This is currently a problem (I must
# wait for it to time-out) because I moved my computer and have no
# ethernet network available now. How can I make it not load the
# module?
Check /etc/network/interfaces - there's probably still an entry there
for eth0. Try commenting it out(the entire section that deals with
eth0).
# 2) I have a zip drive, /dev/hdd. I told it not to mount a boot-time
# in /etc/fstab. It doesn't, but if a disk isn't in when the kernel
# does the Partition Check, it will sit in an infinite "lost interrupt"
# loop. Even if I put a disk in, it won't work until I force a reboot.
# When I had RH6.1 this wasn't a problem (I think kernel 2.2.12) -- it
# would try the check, get a time out and then ignore the disk. (I
# could mount a disk later with no trouble) When I "upgraded" to RH7
# (kernel 2.2.16) the problem began. Debian (Potato) has the same
# problem (kernel 2.2.18, "normal"). How can I have the startup ignore
# the zip drive if no disk is present? (IDE drive)
Other then having "noauto" as an option to the entry in /etc/fstab , I
dunno.
# 3) X looks horrible and GNOME has problems. I copied my XF86Config
# file from RH7 which was a copy form RH6.1 which worked great in both
# RH's. In Debian the startup screen (gdm) looks ugly (seems to be low
# res and low color). When I log in (all dot files copied from RH
# system) my background (wallpaper) looks fine -- right size and color.
# XMMS looks fine too. Gnome-terminal is huge with a large
# coarse-grained font. Gnome-panel segfaults repeatedly on startup.
# With my RH system I had upgraded to a much newer version of gnome-*.
# Could this be the cause of my problems (as in newer config files not
# being understood)?
It could be any number of things, all resolving around the config files
:) Could be that they're too new - could be that they're trying to
access panel applets that you havn't got installed any more. You name
it, it's possible.
# 4) Also, it is rather ridiculous to have to log in to halt or reboot
# the computer. How can I add the Shutdown/Restart option to gdm?
Don't know about that - maye you need a newer version of GDM?
David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay
Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
