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:

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.

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

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