Need help with cdrecord
I know this isn't debian specific, but maybe someone has had a similar problem??? I am having trouble with cdrecord on my laptop. I installed 2.3.99-pre3 (needed to get my USB CDRW to work), and got the drive working okay (an read from it). When I try to record to it, however, I get: shmget: shm filesystem not mounted cdrecord: Invalid argument. shmget failed when I run with -debug I get: dev: 0,0 speed:2 fs: 4096000 TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM fs: 4096000 buflen 4100096 I've tried setting CDR_FIFOSIZE as well as using 'fs=' (as recommended by someone or other) but it didn't help.
Stupid X question
How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but what if I want to use xdm? I have looked through all of my linux documentation, howtos, faqs, man-pages, etc, but couldn't find this anywhere. Please help. Thanks, Geoffrey Hausheer
Problems with DHCPCD and/or pump
I installed the 'frozen' distribution onto my laptop last week, (as a replacement for Slack). Everything seems to work great except that my network connection is flaky. On bootup it randomly either gets starts the dhcp client daemon or doesn't. I have tried using both pump and dhcpcd and get the same results. I alsways see the Starting dhcp client daemon: dhcpcd. message, but sometimes the lights on the cable-modem flash (in which case a 'ps ax' shows dhcpcd (or pump) running) and sometimes I don't. When I log in as root, I and run '/etc/init.d/dhcpcd start' (or pump) the dhcp client alwaysstarts up. This is really driving me nuts (especially since it is not easily reproducable). Does anyone have any ideas? The only two things I could think of were: the dhcp client is started immediately after the pcmcia driver (the network operates through my pcmcia network card). Could the card take some time after cardmgr et al are brought up before it is ready to go? my /etc/networks/interfaces file has no entry for eth0 (the network card) should it? Thanks, Geoffrey Hausheer
System.Map question
I just installed 'frozen' as my first trial of debian. I had a general question: I have two System.Map files on my system. a /System.Map and /boot/System.map-2.2.14 My system crashed (damn laptop suspend and X), and when I rebooted I got a message about something worng with System.Map-2.2.14 in /boot. I looked and the file was ancient (Mid January), whereas I rebuilt the kernel last weekend. I just copied the file in / to /boot and all was well, but do I really need both of these? I also have a vmlinuz-2.2.14 in /boot. This is obviously not my current kenel, nor is it my backup kernel. Do I need it?
