Re: Debian for the first time, a couple of problems

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 07/26/04

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    ein grosser wrote:

    >Since a couple of days I am fiddling with my new Sarge
    >installation.
    >
    <snip>

    >And since yet I've not managed to make
    >the ISDN system work (which seems to be a major problem
    >with 2.6 kernels)
    >
    Sorry; don't have a clue on this one.

    >First of all, I've created the Sarge DVD images on July,
    >5th and so my installation uses only packages up to this
    >date. The kernel package is 2.6.6-1-686.
    >
    >First strange thing is that during boot time there are lots
    >of FATAL messages about modules cannot be loaded, because
    >"operation not permitted".
    >
    This seems really odd.

    > Nevertheless after booting lsmod
    >shows that quite a couple of modules got loaded anyway. But
    >for instance the module 'psmouse' did not, therefore X does
    >not start ('no core pointer found') and I have to do a
    >'modprobe psmouse' by hand first, which works.
    >
    >
    You can add the modules manually to /etc/modules so they'll load up on
    future boots.
    or
    You could use modconf, which will do that for you.
    or
    You can install/fix the discover (or equivalent) hardware detection utility.

    My guess is that those FATAL error messages you're getting is causing a
    big part of your grief. I'd spend my effort on tracking those down.

    >OK, next very annoying thing is about the text console.
    >Whenever I use a program which draws an user interface by
    >ascii line characters (e.g. aptitude) instead of all the
    >border lines this strange 'oe' character is printed. I've
    >tried 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' but without any success.
    >
    >
    >
    I'm suspecting the framebuffer here, but I'm not sure. Check
    /etc/lilo.conf (assuming lilo and not grub, etc) to see what your video
    settings are; maybe set it to "vga=ask" and rerun lilo and then reboot
    and try different settings.

    >Now concerning X and especially KDE. Some programs complain
    >about 'locales not configured for xserver' or vice versa
    >'xserver not configured for locales' or something, cannot
    >remember exactly.
    >
    >
    IIRC, "apt-get install locales" (or "dpkg-reconfigure locales"), then
    select US English (all three) or whatever is appropriate for you.

    >Allmost ALL kde-programs give lots of error messages about
    >misconfigured icon directories in /usr/share/icons/...
    >'.xsession-errors' is spammed with this.
    >Some programs do not start at all saying something like 'QT
    >pixmap cannot be used without a GUI'.
    >And worst of all, allthough 'xfontsel' shows all the
    >standart fonts I expect of a common XFree-installation KDE
    >does not seem to see them, e.g. the standart Helvetica,
    >Times and Courier fonts are completely missing in KDEs
    >configuration dialogues.
    >
    >
    It sounds like your installation had some serious issues and did not
    complete properly. I'm not sure why this would be the case (a bad
    snapshot of the installer? esoteric hardware? buggy RAM?).

    >Well if anyone could point me to a solution of one or more
    >of these problems I would be very happy.
    >
    >

    I've never installed from a DVD; if it were me, I'd use the 100MB
    net-installer image, and then pull the rest down from the net, but
    you've got an ISDN network, and I don't even know what that means, so I
    can't address it. 

    -- 
Kent
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