2 newbie questions

[Peter Solinsky <putski1@mindspring.com>]

I have a boca-research modem which is PNP compatable but debian can't 
detect it.  Do I need to manually set the jumpers for and open COM and IRQ 
for it to be recognized?

2nd:  I am having trouble getting xwindows to work properly.  When I run 
xf86config and set the card for SVGA, my monitor blanks and I get nothing, 
the main problem is I cannot get linux to reboot without entering xwin at 
startup which means my screen blanks at startup and I can't rerun config 
w/o wiping everything and starting over.

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks

Peter