troubles with gtk-config and apt recognition of PCMCIA cdrom

[Jeffrey Brownson <jrsb@geology.wisc.edu>]

Hello,
I'm using 2.2.17 with Potato very recently installed on a NEC P/75 
Versa. In trying to configure the program Ggradebook 
0.91(http://Ggradebook.sourceforge.net/) I get a response that the 
gtk-config file is not present and the libraries and headers are also 
not present. I first tried updating to glib1.2.8 and gtk1.2.8 from 
deb packages, but that yielded the same responses. Now, when I tried 
to compile glib1.2.8 and gtk1.2.8 from tarballs, glib was successful 
and installed a glib-config file, while gtk exited on ./configure 
after not locating my X libraries or include files. What can I do to 
get gtk to compile, in order to get the gtk-config file, which in 
turn is ultimately needed to compile Ggradebook 0.91?

Additionally, by my own fault messing around, my dselect setup for 
apt no longer recognizes that I have a cdrom by PCMCIA connection, 
even when the rest of the system recognizes it as mounted. What 
instructions can I enter to restablish the apt cdrom recognition 
(only finds URL, ftp, and file)?

Thanks for you time,
Jeffrey Brownson