list, Vesafb works now. When I said it was disabled before, I meant it wasn't in the kernel. Before when it didn't work but was in the kernel, I wasn't giving it the mode arguments, maybe that is what error 6 means. So now vesafb works. I got firefox to work, installed with apt-get. I just had to fiddle with /etc/apt/sources.list some more. Firefox still seems better than Mozilla, but it still does the scroll-ahead thing sometimes. Then I did an "apt-get upgrade" and maybe that fixed some things. It brought my X up to 4.3 from 4.1. X still does the dark thing if I switch back to it from a different virtual console. It is dark right now, but I can still see what I'm doing. Also, I can't start any programs in X that would run in an Xterm. I suppose that that has to do with the X upgrade. The X server says that 4.3 is prerelease.
About the modules, I do have /System.map which links to /System.map-2.6.7 . In /var/log/syslog are these entries: Jul 22 22:02:33 gwaihir2 kernel: Loaded 28020 symbols from /System.map-2.6.7. Jul 22 22:02:33 gwaihir2 kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.7. Jul 22 22:02:33 gwaihir2 kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. (I couldn't paste those three lines in X because I can't get an Xterm, so I grepped them outside of X to a textfile and read that with firefox. The regexp I used was [Ss]ymbol . That is the first time I've really used regexps and I feel clever now.) So why aren't the module symbols loaded? Nick Schmalenberger _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech