Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:52:50PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: No one able to help me in my posting a whole bunch of questions ? Hopefuly waitung for some help You might get better results if you post separate questions with spesific subject lines relating to your problems. I get about

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-25 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
No one able to help me in my posting a whole bunch of questions ? Hopefuly waitung for some help Robert

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I normally do is cp the .Xauthority from /home/username to /root and starting X as root would then be okHowever, I am unsure whether this would compromise certain security features, etc This is also OK, but I would just set the

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:36:25AM +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: If you have got the correct modules loaded...you'd need to chmod your /dev/dsp and /dev/audio to allow your username write access to the devices.try chmod 666 on the above devices! no don't run chmod 666. run

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-24 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Thanks to all trying to help me. Sound refuses to work although adding user rland to group audio, in fact the sound card output channel should make the boxes at least do some noise as just tested on the other PC -t doesn't. Does lsmod help tp clarify: MINI:/home/rland# lsmod Module

a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
When trying to start emacs out of a xterm with su permissions the system complaines: MINI:/home/rland# emacs Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread Leo Cacciari
robert_wilhelm_land scripsit: The error recommends to use xhost - but this seems to be a GUI app and therefore dies for the same reasons as previously launching emacs. How can I help myself, would running xhost fruit in a working GUI when changing to su? Hi, no. xhost ISN'T a GUI application,

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:10:01PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: The error recommends to use xhost - but this seems to be a GUI app and therefore dies for the same reasons as previously launching emacs. How can I help myself, would running xhost fruit in a working GUI when changing to

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* robert == robert wilhelm land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: robert When trying to start emacs out of a xterm with su permissions the robert system complaines: robert MINI:/home/rland# emacs robert Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server This is OK. You don't have permission to open widows in

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:10:01PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: When trying to start emacs out of a xterm with su permissions the system complaines: MINI:/home/rland# emacs Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot

RE: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
- From: robert_wilhelm_land [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:10 AM To: debian-user Subject: a whole bunch of questions When trying to start emacs out of a xterm with su permissions the system complaines: MINI:/home/rland# emacs Xlib: connection to :0.0

RE: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my -Original Message- From: Dave Sherohman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 1:11 AM To: robert_wilhelm_land Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: a whole bunch of questions On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:10:01PM +0200