Gnome doesn't start on Debian etch for amd64

Hi folks Sometimes the gnome works, sometimes not (the majority of times). And when it works, i experienced a very unstable system. For example, the gnome halts whenever i try to logout. And i just installed this distro yesterday and I'm wondering why is so unstable considering that's a testing ve

Can't play midi

When i try to play some mid file as a simple user on kmid, it shows "Player :: There are no midi ports !". I can play anything else but midi. So i tried "ls -la mid" and it shows " lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2004-08-06 23:05 midi -> /dev/midi00 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 2 2004-08-06 23:

cd-rom device loading error

I can't mount my cd-rom device, so i tried "dmesg | grep hdc" (my cd-rom dispositive) and i got this following msg: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCGCC-4320B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete D