thank you all soooo much for the respose. I have Debian Package installed on my Compaq Armada 1110 P75 good old notebook.
I even got my mouse work by recreating a symlink mouse to psaus. Since the bad X keeps "flashing back" every other second or so, and renaming S99xdm rc?.d failed to work, I removed xdm from dselect. But now, my screen keeps flashing blank every other 5 minutes and at the end of each interval, I got the message: INIT: id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes it is really annoying. where is this x-respawning initiated? I want to stop it. thank you Ben Heather wrote: > > In a message dated 3/14/00 4:14:08 PM Central Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >> Debian doesn't use runlevels to control whether X starts or not. (Given > >> that this message is being distributed by the debian-laptop list and Ben > >> specifically stated that it was a fresh Debian install, I doubt that he's > >> running Red Hat...) > > > > I believe a more accurate statement would be that Debian doesn't use the > > same > > run levels as RedHat when determining whether or not to start X up at boot > > time. Please correct me if I'm wrong (I don't have my Debian machine in > > front of me at the moment) but a runlevel of 1 (and possibly 2?) will not > > start X. > > > > -Jay > > Correct to my knowledge; 2 doesn't, it's the rough equivalent of redhat's 3. > What he should have said was, "Debian doesn't use *inittab* to control whether > X starts or not. ..." > > Which redhat does. Look for something like S99kdm in your /etc/rc5.d/ > directory. My fave thing to do is create a subdir in each runlevel branch > named "disabled" - it doesn't start with S or K, it's self documenting, and > it's a nice place to move the precious symlink while you ffigure out what > sort of whanging you need to do on X to make it behave itself. > > And much less drastic than purging xdm, kdm or whichever xdmcp software you > were going to use. > > * Heather > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
