Dear ALUG,
I've recently installed Debian "testing" on my laptop over the Internet.
Its all very shinny and nice (with kernel 2.6, KDE 3.1.5 etc.) and I've almost got everything I want working.
There are one or two things that I hope someone might be able to help with though:
1) When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through eth0. This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup?
2) One of the packages didn't configure properly at installation time: noflushd. I tried # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd and got this:
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: noflushd is broken or not fully installed
Any ideas what might be wrong? Or if it matters? (I'm not even sure what its for; $ apt-cache search noflushd gives: "allow idle hard disks to spin down").
3) The last distro I was using was MDK9.2. My new Debian system seems to be quite short of fonts in comparison; particularly ones that work well as KDE fonts (for menus, buttons etc.). Where do linux fonts come from and how do they work? Are there any sources of free fonts?
Thanks in advance, Richard