Re: Installation
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:54:37PM +1300, YH wrote:
> 1. The displayed characters flicks on konsole of X11 screen. My monitor
> is a VE710B LCD and my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2X. I could not found
> the driver for the Trio 3D/2X video card during installation, so I
> selected S3virge driver. I am not sure that caused the problem or not,
> how can I resolve this problem? Where can I get S3 Trio 3D/2X driver?
According to /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/README.s3virge, this driver
supports the Trio3D/2x chip. Possibly you have the refresh rate limits
set too high in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
> 2. The CDROM and Floppy are not defined in mtab, I suspect that the
> debian did not detect the hardware during the installation. I can edit
> mtab to add floppy and cdrom, but I don't know which device in /dev/
> linked to floppy and cdrom. Could you help please.
mtab is a dynamic list of what devices / filesystems are actually
mounted at a particular time. You don't normally edit it by hand. The
table of filesystems is called /etc/fstab. This is the one which should
have /floppy and /cdrom or whatever in it.
If the floppy or cdrom aren't there, the floppy device is /dev/fd0, and
the cdrom device will probably be /dev/hdb, you can add them in:
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
People are mounting their stuff under /media/floppy, /media/cdrom these
days, you can do that if you like.
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