I'm new to debian and still feeling my way around. I have been following discussions and Q&A's on this list for while, hoping to find answers to my problems. Most of them I have been able to solve so far,sometime even with help of hints found in this list.
I have one particular problem I need help with and have not seen any discusion about. Problem is Y2K related. My instalation was from flopies and dates of instalation of files reflect wrong date. Since *nix relates heavily on correct dates, I'm concerned, that some of my problems my have root just in that. I use -badyear switch in hwclock to take care of it. Also had to change -a switch to -A for depmod in /etc/init.d/modutils to update timestamp for dependency file only if changes detected. Since modules are loaded at begining of boot-up script ahead of hwclock my solution to problem was not in effect yet. Loading of each of modules kept producing copious output of errors preventing to read anything else, until I found out that I can see same in dmesg log. My querry is: does anyone know of a better sollution apart from obvious one replacing bios? I have tried that, but local computer industry is not interested in helping out anyone with old technology. At that time I was using W95 and instalable driver which loaded ahead of everything else solved it a lot cheaper. My second question is: how do you scroll a menu of fonts in xfontsel. It shows as narrow window top to bottom of screen listing fonts a to f out of total of 1600 fonts. Manual doesn't mension it and there is no scrollbar. Maybe I should mention that I'm using Enligtenment with gnome. Narrowing choices doesn't help as unavailable fonts are just grayed out. Thanks in advance Mick.
