Fritz Brown wrote:
Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop
(Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly overwhelmed with choices
about which I know nothing!
The RAM is a little lean for some of the more popular GUI setups (KDE,
Gnome, etc), but
fine for me, but then I'm running Sid, which might be the difference.
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IMAP on a server that stores mail in mbox format, transfer my
mail to that account, and grab the files off of that server.
I agree with Angelo. A temporary IMAP email server is probably your best
bet.
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, or should I wait until I'm running sid
before installing 2.6?
It can, but I'd wait. You'll have a bigger choice of 2.6 varieties once
you're in sid.
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Angelo Bertolli wrote:
Evan Storer wrote:
Helpful folks,
I just got a computer from work that was used by someone a few years
ago which runs Debian, and I can't do anything with it since I don't
know any usernames or passwords or anything. Is there some kind of
override to get past the
Katipo wrote:
I've used aptitude for a couple of years now, on dial-up, go to bed on
the upgrade, wake up in the morning, and everything's done.
Must be something wrong with me.
Well, obviously! What self-respecting geek wakes up in the _morning_?!
Well, okay, I guess 11AM is still
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen
(part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that?
I am aware of the GNOME applet (but that doesn't seem to capture a window) and
of GIMP (which doesn't completely meet my
Mark Crean wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:21 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
Because the whole reason the gnome-desktop-environment *meta-package*
exists is to give you a complete Gnome. Not Gnome minus whatever *this*
cluebie doesn't like, whatever *that* cluebie doesn't like, etc.
Chris Purves wrote:
On 12/09/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris: What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? Do you have any
non-official sources in it? Do you have a mix of branches, and if so,
what's the order of them?
I should have addressed this the first time. I
Chris Purves wrote:
I also
updated a second system on the same day from testing main (although
from a different server) and didn't have any problems.
It's a long shot, but you might try changing the problem machine to
point to the server used by the non-problem machine.
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Tong Sun wrote:
Hi,
This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having
upgraded from xsever to xorg.
Is there any way I can have my X back?
I saw in thread
Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed
gnome
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-09/1631.html
that
Chris Purves wrote:
On 9/12/05, *Kent West* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Next, try strace ldconfig and watch for any error messages.
dmcnet:/var/lib/dpkg/info# strace -v ldconfig
execve(/sbin/ldconfig, [ldconfig], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0
uname({sysname=Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can report the same problem.
aptitude upgrade fails because a series of post-installation scripts
exits with 28690 Illegal instruction ldconfig. I also get Illegal
instruction when invoking ldconfig manually.
snip
My /etc/apt/sources.list contains:
deb
David R. Litwin wrote:
I have a (we shall call it) main computer, printer, modem (well, that
doesn't really matter: It is connected to an Ethernet card) and
(eventually) a Router that will provide a wire-less signal. This
machine runs Windows 2000 Pro. What I want to do is set up a network
David R. Litwin wrote:
So the central machine has both W2K and Debian?
It does.
Trying to access files from both the Windows partition and the Debian
partition over the network is fraught with pitfalls
Alright. To make things easier (since I won't be using the central
David R. Litwin wrote:
Alright, let's try some thing. The Toshiba A70 laptop has a
* V.92 56K Data/Fax Modem
* 10/100 integrated Ethernet LAN,
* Built-in Atheros Wireless LAN (802.11ag)
How do I connect this wirelessly to the router I will have?
Depends on how well the
Chris Purves wrote:
Here are the contents of the file:
#!/bin/sh -e
case $1 in
configure)
ldconfig
;;
abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
;;
esac
# Automatically added by dh_makeshlibs
if [ $1 = configure ];
Steve Lamb wrote:
No, it isn't. It is the simple fact that any operation where one could
end up with a completely non-fuctional computer at the end isn't for new
users. It simply is not because new users are too apt to make mistakes to end
up non-functional and not have a clue on how to get
Michael Martinell wrote:
By the way how did you know I consider calligraphy to be art? Quill pens and
parchment are cool - I just can't figure out the delete feature.
I believe it's called a book burning. Especially handy for those ideas
that are before their time.
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Chris Purves wrote:
A recent upgrade with aptitude on testing exited halfway through with
the following error:
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up libpam0g (0.76-23) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam0g.postinst: line 3: 31771 Illegal
instruction ldconfig
I'd take a look at line 3 and
Steven Van Cleave wrote:
On my Sarge (stable), 2.6.8-2-686, $ 'apt-get dist-upgrade' produces the
following error text:
ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed
dpkg: error processing zlib1g (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were
Michael Martinell wrote:
On Sat, September 10, 2005 9:28 am, Kent West wrote:
Continuing your analogy, I want auto manufacturers and software
manufacturers to design for the consumer's benefit, rather than the
manufacturer's benefit. Although this is what I want, I don't expect it
from auto
Michael Martinell wrote:
Of course the only thing we will probably agree on is that we disagree with
everything.
I'm sorry, but I disagree with that.
snicker
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Faithful John wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a relative newbie who's been using the debian sarge. I recently
have been trying to install kubuntu on my friends laptop. She wants
to use linux as a primary system (she doesn't like micro$oft).
Anyway, when I was installing kubuntu off a disc, the network
Angelo Bertolli wrote:
Which is of course they the GNU people prefer info pages :-P
Oh if only I didn't have to read the man info to understand how to
read info gcc...
Amen to that. I've never been able to understand anything in an info
page. I just don't get how info works. Maybe I'm
Oliver Elphick wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 00:45 -0400, Faithful John wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a relative newbie who's been using the debian sarge. I recently
have been trying to install kubuntu on my friends laptop. She wants
to use linux as a primary system (she doesn't like micro$oft).
Hendrik Boom wrote:
Yes, when KDE starts up we hear its theme music.
But once KDE is up, there's no sound aby more. Instead we get a dialogue
telling us to check that our audio system is configured properly.
_When_ do you get this dialogue, and _what_ does it say?
If this dialogue is being
Michael Martinell wrote:
On Fri, September 9, 2005 8:53 pm, Carl Fink wrote:
Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus
very rare cases). Why make the new user go searching?
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Faithful John wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a relative newbie who's been using the debian sarge. I recently
have been trying to install kubuntu on my friends laptop. She wants
to use linux as a primary system (she doesn't like micro$oft).
Anyway, when I was installing kubuntu off a disc, the network
Steve Lamb wrote:
I repeat, if you think that installing an OS is an operation that is
possible without sullying your prestine brain with naughty documentation
you...are...wrong.
You've never installed OS/X, have you?
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Paul E Condon wrote:
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:38:18PM -0500, anoop aryal wrote:
sex does have documentation: kamasutra. i pity da fool who doesn't RTFM.
So it is truly silly to expect that anything so unnatural as a computer
program should have no documentation.
Hmm, so you're
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:16:55AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
1) It's been a while since I've installed Debian. Are new
users added automatically to the sudoers file?
No.
Just to be clear: I didn't mean all new users; I just meant
the first non-root user
not get emptied every week, because
no one reads the documentation about how to take out the trash.
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Steve Lamb wrote:
Kent West wrote:
The same applies to can openers, car stereos, telephones, entertainment
centers, and a host of other devices: if you want me to use your
product, make it easy to use.
None of which come close to the compexity of a computer, an OS or even
most
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
1) It's been a while since I've installed Debian. Are new
users added automatically to the sudoers file?
No.
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I would include my XFree86.0.log but i have no idea how to get it of
the laptop (skipped mail config in debian installer...)
Remember that USB disk you mentioned? I bet it works with USB fobs as well.
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Kent West wrote:
jeroen wrote:
With my limited knowledge i though i could have forgotten to add a
window manager
I don't think so; this looks like a video sync -type issue.
You can double-check this possibility by installing another wm
(aptitude install icewm, etc), or make sure
rs wrote:
Double-check that the pull-down menu that allows you to select which
window manager/environent you want is set to KDE; it sounds like it's
trying to start a wm/environment that doesn't exist.
You mean the Session Type? Under the session type I have four (4) options:
Default,
Xeno Campanoli wrote:
I've got this install of Debian on my brand new emachine T3985 Desktop PC
I have no idea what a T3985 is, or what hardware it has.
snip
3) Every fifth or sixth text character is blurred and just generally
text is grainy, so I think I have a video configuration problem
pnguine wrote:
Hi
I've been using Debian on/off for years but this is the first time I've
tried this list.
I just d'l'd the first 4 'Official torrents for the stable release on
CD' CDs and 'installed' them using apt-cdrom. But the apt sources.list
file is pointing to 'unstable'. Does
Alvin James wrote:
As a result of the KDE problems I have re-installed my system,
That's a Windows way of thinking, but oh well, it's done.
only
thing is I need to have quanta plus working as I use it for work. can
you tell me what I could do is there a sources.list I can use to revert
back to
rs wrote:
Debian / Sarge / main
Hi,
Just installed KDE. It works but, for some reason, I can't login when using
kdm. When kdm login window appears, I enter my local user id and password, the
screen flickers a couple of times and goes back to the login window where I
can enter Id and password
Don Munson wrote:
I have searched and can find nothing definitive. I did find a loose
connector that went from the CD not being in the system at all (no wonder
with no connection) to getting an error message of Unable to identify CD-ROM
format from dmesg.
So you're saying you reconnected the
charlie derr wrote:
Here's what it looks like in firefox (where i do more browsing than
from any other browser, though i regularly use epiphany, konqueror,
mozilla, safari, links and lynx as well)
http://people.simons-rock.edu/cderr/debian-laptop.png
Just in case you were using the GIMP to
Raj M wrote:
I am a newbee to the linux system.
In order to have debian as my OS, I downlaoded from
the debain website, the stable 3.1 version. I
completed the installation as per the debian setup.
Now after rebooting and entering the login and pwd
information, I get the following information.
Kent West wrote:
upper levels X applications/console apps on top of X
console applications/X server (GUI)
base OS/console
kernel
lower levels hardware
ARghgh-mutter, mutter; stupid variable width fonts mutter argh.
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Other than rebooting the machine, is there a stronger kill signal than -9 ?
I was scp'ing some files from a CD drive on the remote machine; the
process hung, so I ctrl-C'd on my end. Then I ssh'd into the remote
machine, and I see the scp process is still running. I've been unable to
kill it. Any
garaged wrote:
On 8/29/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Other than rebooting the machine, is there a stronger kill signal than -9 ?
I was scp'ing some files from a CD drive on the remote machine; the
process hung, so I ctrl-C'd on my end. Then I ssh'd into the remote
machine, and I see
Prabu Subroto wrote:
Dear my friends...
I want each user of a desktop can shutdown the desktop after they are
finished with their job on the desktop.
Till now only root can do shutdown.
How can I do to make the non-root user can shutdown and reboot a
debian box.
Thank you very much
Valter Toffolo wrote:
2005/8/28, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Prabu Subroto wrote:
How can I do to make the non-root user can shutdown and reboot a
debian box.
Depends on how X is being started: startx? xdm? gdm?
you can set /etc/inittab so ctrl+alt+del shutdown instead
Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
Using Sarge stable with RealPlayer 10 Gold. Can play audio/video
files with realplayer on all sites but
can't play movie trailers or clips(wmv format) on any site. Have
tried my.yahoo.com, cnn.com and movie.com
and all I get is the usual player screen
David Goodenough wrote:
On Sunday 28 August 2005 18:06, Ian wrote:
I know it provides a fake root environment for work, but why would you want
that?
You have misunderstood sudo, the root environment is real, not fake.
Sudo allows certain users to issue root commands without having to
Edward Kamau wrote:
Hi
I have been running Sid for a while now. Today I decided to do a
'apt-get dist-upgrade' (after doing an update). Two problems have arisen
from this.
1. apt-get has been unable to reach Debian mirrors for 'non-us' i.e apt
fails with a 404 error. I basically got around this
Ken Heard wrote:
So, somehow I managed to miss all posts between 01:16 on
2005-08-25 and 13:00 on 2005-08-27 -- how I don't know.
I would obviously like to see the responses to my message. I
searched the debian-user archive and did not find them there. Is there
a way they can be
Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
On 8/27/05, Dan Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have downloaded the ISO file from http://www.us.debian.org/ but I cannot
figure out how to make a cd bootable. I don't know how to make a cd image
for a bootable cd. Please help! Thanks!
If it's an iso image, just
Graham Smith wrote:
I have a JDK installed in /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/ when I attempt to
execute
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java
I get
bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory
which is quite plainly wrong as the file most certainly does exist and
has
Graham Smith wrote:
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:10, Kent West wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk ls -l /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 64492 Sep 15 2004 /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin$ ll
total 3160
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root
Ken Heard wrote:
After considerable web research on various distros I decided to
try the then new Debian 3.1r0a-i386 Sarge.
After booting -- I thought successfully -- strange things happened
which did not strike me as quite right. For example:
1. Printing
I tried first to
Graham Smith wrote:
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:47, Kent West wrote:
Try performing some other action on the file, such as renaming it.
Yep I can rename it.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 64492 2005-08-26 12:21 javarenamed
# ./javarenamed
-su: ./javarenamed: No such file or directory
-linux*?
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Graham Smith wrote:
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:32, Kent West wrote:
Graham Smith wrote:
$ldd java
/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory
ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127)
What's the result of ls -ld /lib/ld-linux
Hasan D wrote:
one
http://fotopasaj.com/displayimage.php?album=searchcat=0pos=17
two
http://fotopasaj.com/displayimage.php?album=searchcat=0pos=10
the gallery
http://fotopasaj.com/thumbnails.php?album=searchtype=fullsearch=penguin
the site is in Turkish..
The first two took me to a
A. Lanza wrote:
* I have found Debian not very different from Fedora in the basics. I
would like to know what are the very differences among both distros.
1. Philosophy. Debian is focused on Free (as in Freedom) software. If it
ain't Free, it doesn't get into Debian. Things like Java, Flash,
Daniel Ramaley wrote:
When Xorg came out, Sarge was almost ready to become the stable release.
Sarge is what i'm running, but i've not had any problems with my older
hardware. If you want Xorg, try switching to the testing distribution.
To do that, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and every time you
Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:43:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
I would recommend duplicating the Stable lines, rather than replacing
them. Then replace the stable or sarge in the first (top) set with
your release of choice.
This way, the system can fall back to packages
Bryan Donlan wrote:
On 8/23/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's my understanding that because of their high-priority nature,
security updates go into Stable even before they sometimes make it into
Testing (or perhaps, Unstable?). So a Testing system with the stable
security line
Rick Friedman wrote:
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:22 am, Kent West wrote:
X.org wasn't ready in time for Sarge's release. It is migrating into
Unstable. Many desktop users (myself included) run Unstable rather than
Stable (whereas we tend to keep Stable on the servers). That way we get
Kretzer, Jason R (Big Sandy) wrote:
Unless I am mistaken, there is no defrag utility for linux. Anyone
have anything to add?
Defragging on a Linux system is generally unnecessary; therefore there's
no utility for the task.
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Adrian von Bidder wrote:
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15.22, Kent West wrote:
(such as X being broken right now in Unstable).
How so?
running xorg right now, have not noticed any problems. (Installed ca. 4
days ago)
(See previous branch of thread_
I mis-spoke; I meant KDE, not X
Bryan Donlan wrote:
Testing's newer version means the security fix is considered an older
version, so it won't auto-upgrade. If the version in testing is
vulnerable, you either have to manually downgrade to stable-security,
or manually upgrade to unstable.
Ah; hadn't thought that point
-i kdelibs-data-4:3.3.2-7; if
not, you should be able to install the version that's in Stable or
Testing, even if it's a slightly older version that the one you want.
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David Jardine wrote:
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:55:37AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a program called split,is there a counterpart program
to join the files divided by split?
cat ?
As in:
*cat file1 file2 file3
(I'm a believer in examples ;-) )
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Graham Smith wrote:
Hi,
Sigh. I know that there are likely to be problems with with unstable,
especially at the moment, but could anyone tell me how I could get back my
kde menu entries. The whole application menu system in the kicker (I think
thats what it's called - the equivalent of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought you might be interested in this conversation. It can be
found at
http://p097.ezboard.com/fagelfrm2.showMessage?topicID=1.topic
Ah; a new form of spam. An example of what you'll find at this page:
Can I put AGEL in my website domain, e-mail address, etc.?
Alan Ianson wrote:
On Sat August 20 2005 03:57 pm, qee wrote:
hi
i am newbie, i have installed debian on my laptop, my
desktop manager is wmaker.
but i am also installing kde soon. how do i let debian
know whether to use wmaker or kde
When you install kde you will be asked what
qee wrote:
i cheked the kde site, they have various versions
of kde, if i have to install the latest version,
what is the commaand
(Replying at the top of a post is generally discouraged on this list.
Usually you'll want to follow a post-response-post-response interleaving
format.
Kent West wrote:
In the case of KDE, KDE is currently broken in Sid; I'm not sure about
Sarge.
I meant, I'm not sure about Testing.
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Mr Mike wrote:
no matter what i do, mozilla will not save my preferences. like, default
home page, icons and buttons on the panels... seems it worked fine till i
installed multizilla but after removing both multizilla and mozilla then
reinstalling, the problem still hangs on... it's getting to
David Goodenough wrote:
On Friday 19 August 2005 12:20, Mark Crean wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 13:07 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
Setting up base-config (2.70) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.postinst: line 59: syntax error near
unexpected token `db_fset'
dpkg: error
Albert wrote:
Could someone point me to info on the debian boot and X Window startup
process? I hate it that I don't get to startx for X and that I cannot
login to Gnome as root.
* The PowerOnSelfTest (POST)
* The bootloader (grub/lilo/etc)
* The kernel loads
* The kernel probes and
-tutorial to be useful.
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Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to use Debian as my OS and be
able to get my ... TV-Tuner card [ATI TV Wonder-Pro] to work.
I can't speak about your particular card, but I have an older ATI
All-In-Wonder TV card that mostly works. I had to get the gatos ati.2
David R. Litwin wrote:
I've apt-get install wine. I wish to set it up nicely. It also says:
If you have launched this through the KDE meny system and your KDE
installation is specially configured for Wine, then you can use the
KDE file browser to select a Windows executable and then click on
followed by startx.
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Avid LinuxHacker wrote:
Man pages and user guides have turned me bug eyed these last three months.
This is my first
attempt at perfroming a Linux installation and I am totaly lost. Here is my
situation;
My machine is an old 200 mHz all in one with two hard drives and an internal
modem (56K
Lubos Vrbka wrote:
how can I read the boot messages? I've had some big problems today
which I'll use other emails for but now when I reboot, suddenly
ifconfig reports a ppp0 and ppp1. Before I only had a ppp0. I got
some sort of ppp error with instructions but I can't read it fast
enough.
Bill Day wrote:
OK, while wifes computer is down and waiting on fan to arrive I decided to
investigate the option of running multiple desktops on my computer on
different vt's.
I found this article:
Jason Edson wrote:
My girl just bought me a new laptop, Averatec 6100A, I used gparted
from a live cd to split my ntfs partition to make way for debian. All
went well and worked great. The problem is when I booted Wnd**sa
dialog kept popping up saying there was an error. It kept popping up
so I
Mr Mike wrote:
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 17:35:04 +, Hans-Peter Sulzer wrote:
In other distributions this may be set by changing
the default runlevel to 3, but this doesn't work with
Debian.
edit /etc/inittab and change your default run level from 5 to 3
this way you boot to a text login
Mark Huff wrote:
I performed some work for a company on a Debian Linux system with the
prompt on the system (no graphic frontends, etc) indicated it was a
Debian 3.0 (Woody) built. The initial issue was a user outside of the
company could not get an email sent to a user on the company's
David R. Litwin wrote:
On 01/08/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth
repository in my source.list
You've gone beyond the official Debian repositories; expect breakage.
but there are two problems:
You might want to
James Burke wrote:
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:00:26 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
Can somebody please confirm the following crash in Debian Firefox 1.0.4-2:
Load www.nbntv.com.au then open the forum (botton of the page in the
middle) in another tab. 9 times out of
identical levels for 2 - 5, leaving any differences in the runlevels
to be determined by the system admin.
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X11, after
doing some things in text mode (it takes a long time
to reboot Debian completely)
startx
or
/etc/init.d/gdm start
or
/etc/init.d/kdm start
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which you can then log into X as a normal user.
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Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
New 3.1 install, got x working, sorta.
I still do not know howto switch from the gnome desktop to the kde
desktop, hints please.
If KDE is not installed, aptitude install kde.
How are you starting X? Via startx or some sort of GUI login manager?
If the
Shark Wang wrote:
all you x-window startup based on this file '.xinitrc', pls check out
at your home directory!
# more ~/.xinitrc
for gnome, it should be 'exec gnome-sessions'
On 8/1/05, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I still do not know howto switch from the gnome desktop to
Micha Feigin wrote:
I just got two messages from kaspersky anti virus on the windows computer in my
local network that it is being attacked from the address belonging to the
linux computer on the same network.
The attack is called Land network attack. Any idea what this is?
Thanks
Rajiv Vyas wrote:
On 7/31/05, Hans-Peter Sulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 July 2005 schrieb Evans wrote:
I don't know much, and figured the best way to learn linux is by having it.
Unfortunately, the installation looked like it only half succeeded. The gui
won't
David R. Litwin wrote:
My screen is currently giving me a size of 800 x 600 70MgH. I would
like to change this to the one under (7 or 6 some thing, I believe).
640x480?
Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (or xorg.conf, depending) to make sure
this size is defined in that file.
However, when I use
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