[ale] debian gui difficulties

[Mazukna, Thomas]

I had similar experience.
shut down gpm. Once I have X running I have nothing to do in the console.

as of compiling the kernel here is a super-mini-HOWTO:

apt-get install kernel-package
apt-get install libncurses5-dev
apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.16   ( I am running unstable )

cd /usr/src bunzip and untar the kernel source
cd kernel-source-2.4.16
make menuconfig ( requires libncurses5-dev )
make-kpkg kernel_image

after all this is done in /usr/src you should have
kernel-image-2.4.16_1.00.Custom_i386.deb

dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.16_1.00.Custom_i386.deb


if you are running lilo you are set for a reboot.

Tomas


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Turner [mailto:artic_knight at yahoo.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:47 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] debian gui difficulties


well i got a few debain gui's installed and am testing
them to see what pleases me but i am very frustrated
at the mouse... it seems when i first log in im fine
for a few min then it goes nuts but i regain control..
well the battle goes down hill... i have controle for
less and less periods of time... im running debian
ext2 file system i have not recompiled the kernel yet
(any recommended tutorials?) and the mouse is a ps2
track ball... any help would be greatly appreciated :)

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