On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 10:12, magnet wrote:

> This feature isn't available on this BIOS - Megatrend on a gigabyte mobo - so 
> I can't see any way around the errors.
> 
Well that really sucks - unable to disable SMART sucks...

> I looked into the KVM option but as you say it isn't cheap, and "6" seems to 
> be an odd number as most units I saw were for 4 machines and their price was 
> too much, so buying 2 was even less desirable. A bit of a non-starter here as 
> the cost couldn't be justified for the use the machines get here.
> 

Yeah, they ain't cheap...

> >From memory iirc I installed VNC/servers and set passwords up. Read through 
> all the blurb and changed the config line to include the &KDE option and then 
> a few other versions of that option including a link to the startx, but I 
> couldn't get the KDE environment to be loaded. At best all I could get was a 
> window with a blue background and a white background X console window up. I 
> believe this is the default desktop setting VNC comes with. Right-clicking 
> bought up a menu of some basic apps and a few did work but it was nothing 
> like looking/using KDE within the window. Being very unfamiliar with fully 
> using a console for everything this doesn't help me much. If I sit infront of 
> KDE screen and use a VNC window to look at the Winblowz laptop running ME it 
> appears fine and functions as if you were sitting infront of the laptop. 
> Getting it to view another linux box using KDE is a different beast though 
> and nothing achieved yet.

You're most likely getting mwm or twm as the window manager - so you're
going to have to double check all your configurations so that KDE is the
default wm - for both the regular system AND for VNC.

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