Re: [Sheflug] Debian Box

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Richard wrote:

> The only thing that's wrong is that the operator who screwed it knows
> nothing about graphics cards.  He couldn't tell the difference between
> a crap monitor (which it was) and a working graphis card.

I don't know about that ;) The problem was, you couldn't put it into
graphical mode - text mode worked fine. 

> ok I'll just throw the hard drive up the road.  I've no clue at all
> what's been compiled into the kernel or what's missing.

Theres no need to go that far!! make menuconfig will show you exactly
what's in and what's out.

> I *did* make it very clear to Bob not to do anything he shouldn't. 
> Looks like he's got ears like foam bricks ?

Was the mouse working on the Debian box beforehand? I thought that it had
just been installed, but was unconfigured, and I don't remember seeing
graphical mode boot up or gpm working. It's probably just a case of
configuration, not reinstallation ;)

Cheers,

Alex.


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