I finally fixed my XF86 problems at last. It seems that all I had to do to stop both the flickering and the crashing is lower the default resolution and color depth. Previously, I was running 1024x768 24- Bit color. Changing to 800x600 16-Bit color seems to have done the trick. It's kind of a bummer not being able to use the higher settings (since a 4MB S3 Virge should be able to handle it just fine), but it is worth the trade-off, and both the GNOME and KDE desktops look really nice now. Perhaps one of these days I will score a cheap used 8MB PCI video card at one of the thrift stores, then I can give the higher resolutions another go.
I also managed to get GDM configured and customized to my tastes, and I went ahead and set it up so I could log in directly as root if I feel like it. I know that that is a security vulnerability, but this is my experimentation platform. And when and if I do start setting up Debian systems for other people, I will of course configure them so that they can only operate as root by logging in normally and then using su to become root. Heck, I'll be doing that for my primary workstation as well. So much to still tweak now, it's hard to fecide what to work on next. Actually, I think the next thing I will do is get my Samba configuration file properly set up. She is visible on the LAN already, but I still need to define some shares, and also set her up so she automatically mounts shared folders on the LAN's other three systems (currently Windows-98 all of them) at boot time. After that, I think it will be time to optimize her by deactivating services she doesn't need to have running, uninstalling extraneous packages, and installing packages I may have missed initially. Other plans for this system will include possibly trying to compile the 2.4.22 kernel and then giving SE Linux a try (that is Security Enhanced Linux, freely available from the NSA) http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html Anyway, it's been a good evening, Linuxwise this time around. Now I can go to bed with the feeling that I have gained some major experience points. :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
