<quote who="Dave Kempe">
> Now, how do i switch from xdm to kdm? I've actually never seen kdm. Is it
> worth it? I like KDE 2.0 btw.
Under Debian, things like kdm, gdm and xdm are regarded as services, so
you'll find them in /etc/init.d... Assuming for the moment that kdm operates
similarly to gdm, you'll be able to get away with:
apt-get install kdm; /etc/init.d/kdm start
Oddly enough (although it makes sense), init.d scripts are usually regarded
as configuration files in Debian. If you "apt-get remove xdm", there will
still be an xdm script there, but on further inspection, you'll find that it
checks for the xdm executable and dies quietly if it's not there. If you
"apt-get --purge remove xdm" or "dpkg -P xdm", everything is removed.
Why does it make sense? When you upgrade a package, the current one is
removed and then the new one installed. If the same thing were done to the
package's configuration files, you'd have a lot of very cranky system
administrators. :) Thus, init scripts are regarded as configuration files.
This confused me for a while when I first started using Debian, then I
RTFM and kicked myself. ;)
> Also, I have a network card eth0 that has had its irq changed i think (new
> motherbaord) Now i have to manually modprobe rtl8139 and ifup eth0 before
> it will work. What do i do in Debian to fix that up? Is there a config
> tool? The /etc/modules.conf seems to suggest something. but it doenst
> help. How do i load it on startup?
There's an easy way, and a quick way:
Easy: Run modconf as root, you'll know what to do from there.
Quick: vi /etc/modules, and as is the Debian way, the configuration file
itself has a quick explanation of its use. You'll also want to
research the /etc/modutils/ directory.
- Jeff
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