I've got Debian 3.0r1 on my ancient Gateway Solo 2500 laptop (Intel Celeron chip 300 MHz, 4.0GB HD, 96MB RAM). Now whenever I start up the computer I get a screen full of error messages regarding the usage of the getty command, and the notification, "INIT: Id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes". Then it happens again. This only happens when I'm in console mode and not when I'm running X (and I would much prefer to run this computer in console mode, since X look absolutely god-awful on this computer's display).
I've figured out that there's a line in /etc/inittab which looks like this: S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS3 and it looks like, to me, it's trying to initialize the modem or something. The modem is a PCMCIA card. I've tried commenting out this line in /etc/inittab, but when I restart the computer, the line is restored to /etc/inittab. Any suggestions or ideas would be more than welcome! -- -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery
