This one time, at band camp, Levi Waldron said: > I'm having a few problems installing Debian on an older Compaq Presario 1020 > P120 with 48MB RAM. (Yes I just read the thread on Compaqs - I agree that > after I get everything working it'll probably be great) > > 1) The worst one is that after apm -s, apm -S, or alt-F3 the system acts all > weird after waking up again. The clock slows down to about half-speed and in > X11 (icewm or blackbox) the screen keeps on blanking, until I reboot. > > -Doesn't matter whether I suspend in console or X mode. > -Console mode seems to work find after suspend, although I haven't checked if > the clock slows down there too. > -stopping and starter x server doesn't help. Not sure about this. > I'm using a custom kernel with apm loaded as a module but all the other APM > options off. My first custom kernel had most of them on but I recompiled > with them off to try and solve the problem. Should I give up and go to a > linux software-suspend? > > 2) How can I make it stop beeping every time I hit tab to auto-complete when > there is more than one possibility, and when I hit backspace at the beginning > of a line? Other than turning the volume all the way down. Happens in > console and X. esound daemon is now uninstalled. setterm for console, and the various terminal emultaors all have a seperate way of doing it in X. Look for sytem bell - can usually be set to visual, beep or off. > 3) When I open up an xterm from the icewm toolbar, it doesn't read my .bashrc > file. I have to type source .bashrc to get it to read it. The command the > toolbar runs has the -ls option in it, which should be saying it's a login > shell no? (OK, not Compaq's fault!) Check that your .bash_profile sources .bashrc, and then all child shells will inherit it - .bash_profile contains lines to source .bashrc, but they're commented out by default. > Other than that, and the modem which pppconfig can't find and I suspect may > be a Winmodem (but it doesn't say in the owner's manual!), and the extra > multimedia keys which xev doesn't think exist, it's running great. Emacs and > Gnumeric run quite quickly. Also can't help here - good luck if it's a winmodem. I would say try lspci, and check linmodems.org, They may be able to help you. > Thanks for any help, > -Levi HTH, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Stephen Gran | A princess should not be afraid -- not with | |steve@lobefin.net | a brave knight to protect her. -- McCoy, | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.3 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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