Starting from Debian

[vash]

/me puts on flame suit.

After successfully installing everything based off RedHat, I went to Debian to become frustrated and now more aware. Originally, I installed Mandrake 8.1 and it was cake -- 15 minutes later, I was done and running everthing.

Now I wanted somewhat of a challenge, I went to Debian. Downloaded the install cd, installed potato and now upgaded to woody (mainly for the 4.1 X). Installed blackbox and sawfish and now I'm cooking, but when I try to run items out of the gnome control center (specifically window manager appearance changes), it saws that Sawfish is not running. Also, when I start X, I get an error telling me that I'm not running a GNOME compiant Window Manager (probably doesn't like blackbox, I assume).

Any tips here? Also, where can I check to see if my sound card is installed (the module?) I know which kind of sound card (onboard via ac97 sound), but not quite sure which module to install and load.

BTW, apt is quite useful.

vash

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

dude, you arent running sawfish. you do realize that blackbox and sawfish are both window managers dont you? you cant run both at once.

and for sound, should be

lsmod

if you dont see soundcore and ac97_codec, then do:

modprobe soundcore
modprobe ac97_codec

if that works, add soundcore and ac97_codec to /etc/modules

more edits: why are you using gnomecc? you probably dont really need it if you're not using gnome. and blackbox indeed is not gnome compliant.

 

[AkumaBao]

Wow. Looks like what I did on my first install of Debian. If you want to use GNOME, you're going to have to switch over to 'gdm'. The best way to do that is to type, "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86". If you didn't know that already. 😛