Help: Dell Inspiron 5000e X-Windows

Dear friends, Can you help me bring up X-Windows on my Dell Inspiron 5000e notebook? I've been using GNU/Linux for almost two years, but this is my first experience of installing it on a notebook. I could not set up X-windows. When X-windows setup program (XF86Setup in potato or Xconfigurat

Re: Help: Dell Inspiron 5000e X-Windows

Heather wrote: Besides, Debian GNU/Linux automatically starts the X server at boot time also gave me a headache. take the symlink for xdm, kdm, gdm (any of these) out of your runlevel 2 area (/etc/rc2.d/). I like to create a disabled directory under there and move them in - makes them easy

Re: Help: Dell Inspiron 5000e X-Windows

Thanks for everybody. I finally set up the X-windows. I upgrade it to XFree86 4.0.x. But while installing, I found myself in a evil circularity due to dpkg doing interdependency, because I installed locale-zh. While the 3.3.x was removed and 4.0.x installed, the config file remains to be the

Help: Dell Inspiron 5000e X-Windows

Dear friends, Can you help me bring up X-Windows on my Dell Inspiron 5000e notebook? I've been using GNU/Linux for almost two years, but this is my first experience of installing it on a notebook. I could not set up X-windows. When X-windows setup program (XF86Setup in potato or Xconfigurat

Re: Help: Dell Inspiron 5000e X-Windows

Heather wrote: >> Besides, Debian GNU/Linux automatically starts the X server at boot time >> also gave me a headache. > > > take the symlink for xdm, kdm, gdm (any of these) out of your runlevel 2 > area (/etc/rc2.d/). I like to create a disabled directory under there > and move them in - m

Re: Help: Dell Inspiron 5000e X-Windows

Thanks for everybody. I finally set up the X-windows. I upgrade it to XFree86 4.0.x. But while installing, I found myself in a evil circularity due to dpkg doing interdependency, because I installed locale-zh. While the 3.3.x was removed and 4.0.x installed, the config file remains to be the

changed network config

Dear Debian Users, I'm using Debian GNU/Linux unstable. Recently I move to a new place and the ethernet configuration changed as a result. I manually edited all the files. It works fine except that each time when pcmcia service starts, the IP address, network mask and other things are of the

Re: changed network config

Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > What files did you change? > > /etc/network/interfaces or > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts > > Also look at your /etc/modules Thanks very much to Ramesh, Troy and others responding. I changed /etc/netowrk/interfaces but /etc/pcmcia/network.opts still has the old informatio

changed network config

Dear Debian Users, I'm using Debian GNU/Linux unstable. Recently I move to a new place and the ethernet configuration changed as a result. I manually edited all the files. It works fine except that each time when pcmcia service starts, the IP address, network mask and other things are of the

Re: changed network config

Panuganty, Ramesh wrote: > What files did you change? > > /etc/network/interfaces or > /etc/pcmcia/network.opts > > Also look at your /etc/modules Thanks very much to Ramesh, Troy and others responding. I changed /etc/netowrk/interfaces but /etc/pcmcia/network.opts still has the old informati