Re: First time installation

[Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk>]

Hi Kevin and Andreas,

Thanks for your advice.  

X-server starts now.  But following problems still remain

1) Mouse - optical mouse
Selecting /dev/input/mice, X-server can't start
Selecting /dev/psaux, X-server starts but mouse dies.  Toggling between
'init3' and 'init5' impossible.  Had to force-reset the PC

Now I am using a PS/2 mouse instead with /dev/psaux setting

2) Cdwriter.
# ls -l /dev/cdrom   /dev/cdrom -> hda
# df
showing / = /dev/hdc2
# ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom1
# ls -l /dev/cdrom1
total 0
Edit /etc/fstab
can't mount /dev/cdwriter

I am not sure whether cdrom1 has been symbolic linked to /dev/hdb.  If
YES how to remove it to try /dev/hdd etc.

3) # shutdown -h now
is not power down.

Kindly advise how to fix these problems.  Thanks in advance.

B.R.
Stephen

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 18:08, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:15:26PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > Hi all folks,
> > 
> > I installed Debian 3.0 on a PII-box for test purpose.  Everything seemed
> > going on smoothly, except following problems found after installation.
> > 
> > 1) X-server could not start
> > 
> > At time of installation I have no idea what chip to be selected for the
> > old graphic card - Maxi Gamer Phoenix, Voodoo Banshee resulting in
> > X-window failed to start (I just selected S3Visage)
> > 
> > # startx
> > error popup
> > 
> > /var/log/XFree86.log   attached
> 
> Hi S,
> what does 'lspci' say?
> 
> what does 'X -configure' say.
> 
> there are two configure commands for debian.
> 
> 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common' and
> 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' 
> 
> choose 'medium' for configuration options
> 
> > 
> > 2) Monitor = NEC Multisync XV15+
> > During installation no request for entering monitor detail
> > 
> > 3) The PC has both CDRom and CDWriter
> > CDRom - slave to Primary IDE
> > CDWriter - master to Secondary IDE
> > 
> > One of them could not be detected
> > 
> > Under /dev/
> > only cdrom shown, no cdrom1 indicated.
>  
> dev/cdrom is a symbolic link. Do ls -l /dev/cdrom
> you can create a symbolic link to /dev/cdrom1 to whatever your other ide
> device is. Check 'dmesg' or /var/log/messages for more info.
> 
> > 
> > Kindly advise 
> > 1) what chip to be selected and what command shall be used to make this
> > adjustment including monitor config.
> > 
> see above.
> 
> > 2) How to add CDWriter/CDRom to this box
> > 
> 
> see above.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > B.R.
> > Stephen Liu
> 
> Hello from the Big Apple!
> -Kev