Re: HELP: new to debian 3.0
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, r o b wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just installed Debian 3.0...pretty much without a hitch. Now I'm trying to get everything in working order. There's a few things I'm unsure of:
>
> 1) upon installing the system, I set the clock time to GTM, rather than local time. Now when it displays the time, it's -5 hours behind my local time. How can I reconfigure this?
>
> I've modified /etc/default/rcS, "UTC=no"...but that didn't fix it.
>
>
> 2) I have a scroll mouse...but the 'scrolling' part isn't working.
>
> In looking in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, both InputDevices: Configured Mouse and Generic Mouse have the lines:
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>
>
> 3) the sound driver was either not installed, or not configured properly on
> installation. I get the error:
> "error initializing sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied)"
> ...when logging in.
>
>
> 4) is there any way to shutdown/reboot the system while logged in as a user? I'd rather not have to su to root everytime to power down.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> r o b
>
>
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