I tried these questions with the newbie XFree list, to no avail. So, I thought I would try here. thanks for any help.
1st things 1st: running debian, trying to get gnome working right, trying wmaker and icewm, and my video card is ATI Rage Fury Pro (Rage 128 driver). I couldn't get X to load with this video card in previous releases using the debian installer stuff, since the driver wasn't there, so I have all my gnome and everything else installed via the debian packager, but X installed from XFree's binaries. A bit weird, but...oh well. maybe I will re-install X the debian way when it catches up (couple weeks, I guess, I'm running woody). Ihave installed X on my compaq laptop in the past, so I thought this would be easier... 1) how do I get gnome to run upon logging in from console? Something to do with .xsession or .xinitrc or something, right? If I login from gdm, I get gnome, but nothing seems to work right. I have an .xinitrc with 1 line "icewm", and if I do a "startx" from the console, I can get icewm to run, but no gnome. (you can have both, right? maybe I am hopelessly confused.) Anyway, from console, ice, but no gnome, from gdm, gnome, but no ice. I want both. how? 2) how do I get the scroller mouse button to work? Thanks. Jeff
