Gus Wirth wrote: > [snip] > > I see that you have an AMD motherboard. Does it have a VIA chipset, > specifically the KT133/KT133A ? If so you will have problems because > there is a bug in the DMA operation with the PVR-150 card. I had to buy > a new motherboard because of that. I got a cheap ($89) Fry's special > combo of an ECS 755 with an SIS chipset and a Sempron processor that > works great. > > While doing your initial setup it may be more useful not to have the gdm > (Gnome Display Manager) and X start up automatically. Debian doesn't > believe in run levels (well, it does but not the same way as say RedHat) > so you will need to manually hack some symlinks. The system will start > up in run level 5. Use Ctr-Alt-F2 to get to a text login. Go to > /etc/rc5.d In that directory you will see a symlink called S99gdm. This > points to the startup script for gdm. Move it to K99gdm to prevent it > from starting. The next time you reboot you will then be at a regular > text login prompt.
Debian believes in run levels. It's just that (x|g|k)dm is started via an init script, and not via inittab like Redhat. If I remember right, if you have a screwed up video driver or x config in Redhat, it keeps trying to respawning X forever, and you have to get to a terminal, be quick and take manually to another init level, or reboot and manually override the default run level. I much prefer the Debian way for this as when you screw up X, you're not fighting the box to get a shell prompt to fix it. > The other thing I noticed is that the system uses the original vi and > not vim for an editor. This may be OK but it drove me crazy so I > installed vim like this: > > # apt-get update > # apt-get install vim Yeah, it is an issue, but easily corrected. Wait until you try to compile a kernel or build your own kernel and find out that ncurses-dev isn't installed. :) -- Mark Wolfe Lakeside, Ca. http://www.wolfenet.org gpg fingerprint = 42B6 EFEB 5414 AA18 01B7 64AC EF46 F7E6 82F6 8C71 Microsoft - We put the "backwards" into backwards compatibility. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
