ObeseWhale wrote: > 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the > graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't > seem to be capable of exiting X... Is there any way to stop Debian from > running xdm on startup?
You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm). > 2. My ethernet card, a Netgear fa310tx, came with a driver disk. The disk > has a linux directory with but one file 'tulip.c', which is clearly the > driver... How do I install this to get my ethernet card working? I don't really know... I'd probably try 'gcc -c tulip.c', followed by 'insmod tulip.o'. Isn't there a readme or anything on the disk? > 3. Is there any way to stop 8bpp as being the default color depth for X and > switch it to say, 16bpp. I know I could startx using -- - 16bpp but I'm a > little lazy and just want 16bpp to be the default. The answer for that is in the XFree86 howto: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/x102.html#AEN152 Matthew
