Re: Beginner Help

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 15 June 2006 11:58, Joseph Smidt wrote: > Note: press enter after each command.(I know this is obvious, but just > in case you are *really* a beginner) Also, you may have to reboot after > installing kde and kdm, I can't remember. I hope this works for you. Please dont post incorrec

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 07:59 -0700, Mike Hill wrote: > I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to > ask, then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to > have Gnome Desktop running. [...] 3. How can I close down Gnome and start up KDE? > > Thanks for he

Re: Beginner Help

2006-06-15 Thread Joseph Smidt
1.) I think it is a permissions problem. Go into the administration section in the gnome menu and find user/groups. Click on it, type in the root password, then when it opens click on the user you like to edit. Edit that user and go to permissions, enable the permissions you want. 2.)I just po

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:59, Mike Hill wrote: > I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to ask, > then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to have > Gnome Desktop running. > > > I have a few questions. > 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Kent West
Mike Hill wrote: 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I think it is permissions, but where do I start? As root, "adduser audio". Log that user out/in. 2. I created a user, but SUDO seems to only work from ROOT and not from my user. As root, "visudo"; add t

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi Mike, On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:59, Mike Hill wrote: > I have a few questions. > 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I > think it is permissions, but where do I start? Add this user to the group audio. > 2. I created a user, but SUDO seems to only work

Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Hill
I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to ask, then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to have Gnome Desktop running.I have a few questions. 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I think it is permissions, but wh

Re: Beginner help

2003-02-28 Thread Johan Ehnberg
I have downloaded Debian and want to set up an old PC as a server which will initially serve a PC and an X-box. Will it be the gateway for these also? To connect to the internet I'll be using an Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem. My question is this, how do I set up Debian?!? OK, that's a big question

Beginner help

2003-02-28 Thread Daniel Needham
Help!Feeling a little out of my depth here!I have downloaded Debian and want to set up an old PC as a server which willinitially serve a PC and an X-box.To connect to the internet I'll be using an Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem.My question is this, how do I set up Debian?!?OK, that's a big que

Re: VPN beginner -- help!

2002-09-06 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Mike Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I dounloaded 2.2R7 and installed it. (snip) > many sets of documentation indicate that support for this was added to > the kernel, and I shouldn't need to do any patching, etc. Is this true? > Am I missing the

VPN beginner -- help!

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Patterson
I had a working 2.1 system with vpn, blah blah blah... The system's hard drive died. So I dounloaded 2.2R7 and installed it. Now I'm trying to get VPN to work, and I'm horrifically confused by all the documentation out there without simple instructions. What we have: a linux box doing masquerad