Re: x & kde only run as root

2003-11-24 Thread David Millet
gdm starts, if I log in as root, kde starts & run fine. if I log in as anyother user x fails with various messages /etc/X11/xsession : line 7 xrdb: command not found I had the same problem a while back, if I remember right there was a directory that had 700 perms, i had to recursively change the

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-10 Thread David Millet
thank you very very much to everybody that has helped me out with my upgrade problems, i'm going to give all your advice a try this morning. should be fun! david -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Source list help

2003-11-08 Thread David Millet
I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to get packages from unstable. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-update check it out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread David Millet
huh? am i hearing your right? Stable is very stable...i'm learning to live with it now since last week's mess i had with SID. Stable for my DVR/imap/samba sever, SID/winXP on the desktop beast...so if SID goes bonkers on me i just go back to winXP for a few days and then run an apt update which

got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread David Millet
so hi, its me the debian noob again, already breaking my oath to not bug you folks too much with my issues, but oh well, i'd appreciate some help anyways. they said that the stable debian might be a little outdated and i didnt listen. but they were right! it installed well, it was stable, but

Re: debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl

2003-11-07 Thread David Millet
so i just finished my first successful installation of debian (thank you, thank you, i'll be signing autographs until tuesday), originally it was just my win2000 drive in, i left it in there as the master (hda) and put in a new drive as slave (hdb) which i installed debian is. i can boot flaw

debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
so i just finished my first successful installation of debian (thank you, thank you, i'll be signing autographs until tuesday), originally it was just my win2000 drive in, i left it in there as the master (hda) and put in a new drive as slave (hdb) which i installed debian is. i can boot flawl

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
Complain to the store's owner that his employees overwrote your data, and demand compensation. Contact the BSA, and tell them about the unlicensed Windows. hell ya! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
hey thanx so much for your help, just one quick question Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it. The FAT filesystem semantics aren't the same as Unix, and it's not a very good filesystem anyway. I would leave your Unix homedir on a Unix filesystem, and mount the fat32 partition somewhere else. i wa

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
My experience with the wonderful world of Linux and end users - or normal people. My sister needed a laptop to help her start a new business writing grant proposals. I figured I'd help by buying her a laptop (used, but still good, a Dell Latitude PIII, 256Meg RAM, 12 Gig hard d

heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
ok so i've been doing this linux desktop thing for about a year now, started with redhat, then went to mandrake, now i want to move on to debian, i'm still a noob so i've been reading up on the install instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install but before i got started i

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
all I have to say is that I personally want linux to rule the desktop, simply because I will stand to make alot of money when big companies start picking it up. a lot of us will, in fact. i'm extremely confident that it will rule the desktop market, because of the speed at which t

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-05 Thread David Millet
all I have to say is that I personally want linux to rule the desktop, simply because I will stand to make alot of money when big companies start picking it up. a lot of us will, in fact. i'm extremely confident that it will rule the desktop market, because of the speed at which the desktops h

which architechture

2003-11-05 Thread David Millet
Hey all, I'm new to the whole Debian thing, and fairly new to Linux in general. I hated installing things via RPM, so I thought I'd give Debian a try. But I don't know which isos to download and install for my AMD Duron 800 processor, do I download the alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips