Hi all, I have been trying for the past Month to get my SUN Blade 1000 with UltraSparcIIITo run with Debian 5.0.7, Everything installs no problems at all the system runs without any hiccups at all... except 1, I really need to install a GUI as my Business Partner has no experience with Linux at all but has "worked" with Linux desktop and can manage with it I do have have some experience with the command line but only the basics, i have tried 5 different Linux distro's for SPARC, 2 of them don't even boot, 2 will only work if no GUI is installed, the last being Solaris loads fine, GUI works fine but the commands are confusing (used to Debian based Commands), and is a nightmare to set up as WEB server, I want to re install Debian as i found it to be the most stable but nothing i have tried has helped, the only thing i have learnt from this experience is how to Google more efficiently please can someone help me get a GUI to work on my system.
The most common fault i have come accross in Debian is after running the command apt-get install Gnome, it goes throught the whole download procedure then i type in : "startx", the screen flashes black a few times, then i get a blue screen telling me that X has failed and has been disabled and that i must reconfigure it, I tried that but absolutely nothing works I have come across this problem many times in my Google searches but none with a helpful solution, If I have to i am willing to use a much older distro to get this thing working properly with a GUI, I don't even think it really needs to be updated, as long as its stable and works with a GUI, all the machine has to really do is run as web server and mail server, as its going to be hosting my company's website and mail. Please please please can someone help me solve my problem PS i can't really give you any other information as to what graphics card the thing is using as i haven't found the command yet that will allow me to view the graphics card details, all i can say is its the standard graphics card that came built into the machine, I don't have any documentation on the machine either as it was bought second hand. Thanks in advance Regards Ryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
