Re: [Nolug] Debian is chewing on my head

On Monday 29 December 2003 09:40, gonzeaux bevarde wrote:
> Since my confidence in Red Hat has declined with the announcement of their
> new restructuring (purely my own misguided feelings I’m sure) I decided to
> go with Debian

> Woody, of course) mostly from discussions the fine people of NOLUG have
> been having about it for months now. I really have two issues that have been
> plaguing me for a couple of days now and I don’t seem to be any closer to
> resolving them:

> I can get X to start with gnome but when KDE starts it gets to the
> keyboard/mouse icon on the startup splash and fails. I'm using a Logitech
wireless keyboard/mouse duo. Anybody heard of this?? Got a hint as to where
to look?

This sounds awfully strange, mouse problems of that nature are usually due to
X misconfiguration. Take a look at your ~/.xsession-errors.

> Secondly, I noticed there’s no /usr/src/linux directory so when I try and
> load the wlan
> module to get the wireless card working I have no binaries to point to. I

Just symlink "linux" to the sources of your running kernel, which will be
named something like "kernel-source-2.4.23". If you installed woody and
didn't explicitly start the installer in 2.4, you are probably using 2.2, so
you might want to install a newer kernel

"apt-cache search kernel-image" will do, and should give you a pretty good
selection of 2.4 kernels. Then if you need the sources install the
corresponding source package as well.

There are backports to woody of most things you may want on http://
www.backports.org, just starting out I would reccomend using backports over
using sid, besides, sarge is going stable in a few months and will be very up
to date.

-- 
Tim
   Kelley
entropy @ r00tserverz.net [ New Orleans, LA ]
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