Re: A series of newbieite questions
Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au> writes:
> ObeseWhale wrote:
>
> > 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the
> > graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't
> > seem to be capable of exiting X... Is there any way to stop Debian from
> > running xdm on startup?
>
> You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm).
Or disable/remove the symlinks in /etc/rc[0-6].d/. Then you can still
start manually with `/etc/init.d/xdm` should you be so inclined.
> > 2. My ethernet card, a Netgear fa310tx, came with a driver disk. The disk
> > has a linux directory with but one file 'tulip.c', which is clearly the
> > driver... How do I install this to get my ethernet card working?
>
> I don't really know... I'd probably try 'gcc -c tulip.c', followed by
> 'insmod tulip.o'. Isn't there a readme or anything on the disk?
There is a tulip driver in /lib/modules/2.2.x/net that you can install
via `insmod tulip.o` in the standard distribution. No need for you to
compile it yourself.
> > 3. Is there any way to stop 8bpp as being the default color depth for X and
> > switch it to say, 16bpp. I know I could startx using -- - 16bpp but I'm a
> > little lazy and just want 16bpp to be the default.
>
> The answer for that is in the XFree86 howto:
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/x102.html#AEN152
Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config, set DefaultColorDepth to whatever you
please in the Screen section and restart X.
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Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
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