Re: X configuration problems

2001-04-19 Thread Adam Bender
--On Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:37 AM -0700 Dieter Schicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Switch to a different terminal, e.g. by pressing "Ctrl-Alt-F2" and deinstall xdm (dpkg --purge xdm). This doesn't work for me. X Windows loads automatically when I boot, even before I login, and is comp

X configuration problems

2001-04-18 Thread Adam Bender
I just installed and configured X Windows on my system. I seem to have done it incorrectly, since when it loads, it's a mostly white screen with black dots on it. What makes it worse is that it now loads on startup, even before I login. How can I prevent it from running so that I can recon

Network card

2001-04-18 Thread Adam Bender
First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me figure out how to get the 3c59x module to work with my 3c950C EtherLink card. It turns out I had the wrong alias for eth0, and I needed to run 'pump' for it to work. My question now is, why do I need to run 'pump' every time I login to get it t

Need a way to install driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Adam Bender
OK, I just installed the base Debian system, and now I need a way to install packages. My big problem is that there is no driver module for my ethernet card in the kernel. Therefore, I can't use a network to get packages. I have a driver for the card, but the only thing I can do is put it on

Installing network card driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Adam Bender
I just installed potato on my system. I can't find a driver for my network card in modconf (it's a 3Com 3C905C-TX), and therefore I can't download any software packages. Anyone know where I can get one? Is there another way besides CD-ROM to get packages, like mabe from a DOS partition? T

ResiserFS?

2001-04-04 Thread Adam Bender
OK, so I get the digest version of this list, which has the nasty habit of leaving some messages out sometimes. I missed the recent messages about ReiserFS. Could anyone give me a recap of what that was about? I was planning on installing it, but from the header it looked like there might