Now We Are Rollin'

From: Scarletdown (scarletdown_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/30/03

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    Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:43:25 -0800 (PST)
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    I finally fixed my XF86 problems at last. It seems
    that all I had to
    do to stop both the flickering and the crashing is
    lower the default
    resolution and color depth. Previously, I was running
    1024x768 24-
    Bit color. Changing to 800x600 16-Bit color seems to
    have done the
    trick. It's kind of a bummer not being able to use
    the higher
    settings (since a 4MB S3 Virge should be able to
    handle it just
    fine), but it is worth the trade-off, and both the
    GNOME and KDE
    desktops look really nice now. Perhaps one of these
    days I will
    score a cheap used 8MB PCI video card at one of the
    thrift stores,
    then I can give the higher resolutions another go.

    I also managed to get GDM configured and customized to
    my tastes, and
    I went ahead and set it up so I could log in directly
    as root if I
    feel like it. I know that that is a security
    vulnerability, but this
    is my experimentation platform. And when and if I do
    start setting
    up Debian systems for other people, I will of course
    configure them
    so that they can only operate as root by logging in
    normally and then
    using su to become root. Heck, I'll be doing that for
    my primary
    workstation as well.

    So much to still tweak now, it's hard to fecide what
    to work on next.
     Actually, I think the next thing I will do is get my
    Samba
    configuration file properly set up. She is visible on
    the LAN
    already, but I still need to define some shares, and
    also set her up
    so she automatically mounts shared folders on the
    LAN's other three
    systems (currently Windows-98 all of them) at boot
    time.

    After that, I think it will be time to optimize her by
    deactivating
    services she doesn't need to have running,
    uninstalling extraneous
    packages, and installing packages I may have missed
    initially.

    Other plans for this system will include possibly
    trying to compile
    the 2.4.22 kernel and then giving SE Linux a try (that
    is Security
    Enhanced Linux, freely available from the NSA)

    http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html

    Anyway, it's been a good evening, Linuxwise this time
    around. Now I
    can go to bed with the feeling that I have gained some
    major
    experience points. :)

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