Re: Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

2004-01-25 Thread Adam
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 15:40, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> "A PCI sound card was found in your system. The details are: Model: >> Ensoniq|5880 AudioPCI" >> then says >> "An error occurred while writing the config file." I think this warning was a red herring. It had created /etc/modutils/sn

Re: Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

2004-01-25 Thread Adam
On Thursday 22 January 2004 02:10, Jerome R. Acks wrote: >> Yesterday I installed wmaker and added a symlink in /etc/gdm/Sessions to >> the wmaker binary. This allowed me to log in to WindowMaker, but >> screwed up GNOME and KDE. > > Instead of symlink, revert to previous /etc/gdm/Sessions and

Re: Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

2004-01-23 Thread John Shankland
Sorry Soumyadip, didn't mean to send that directly to you. I hit the wrong reply button again. > Starting gdmand running metacity --replace says the same. > Am i missing something ? I don't know if this is the "correct" way but I used the alternatives facility to change my default WM and gnome s

Re: Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

2004-01-23 Thread Soumyadip Modak
> > How do i get Gnome to use Metacity instead of Sawfish. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg04000.html Stopping gdm and running metacity --replace says: Window manager error: Unable to open X display Starting gdmand running metacity --replace says the same. A

Re: Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

2004-01-22 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:08:41PM +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 07:31, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > > > > > Maybe also install metacity. > > > How do i get Gnome to use Metacity instead of Sawfish. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg04000.html --

Re: Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

2004-01-22 Thread Soumyadip Modak
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 07:31, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > > Maybe also install metacity. > How do i get Gnome to use Metacity instead of Sawfish. I'm on Debian Unstable. Thanks a lot -- Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

2004-01-21 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:25:29PM +, Adam wrote: > I've installed Debian testing with gdm on an Athlon system. The Debian and > KDE sessions work (and are the same); so does "failsafe xterm", which is a > bit bare for my taste. > > Every time I try GNOME or Failsafe GNOME, I get the followin

Re: Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

2004-01-21 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Adam (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [...] > Also, I have no sound. When I log into KDE, I get this error: > > Sound server informationl message: > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) > The sound server will continue, using the n

Debian testing: problems with x-sessions and sound.

2004-01-21 Thread Adam
I've installed Debian testing with gdm on an Athlon system. The Debian and KDE sessions work (and are the same); so does "failsafe xterm", which is a bit bare for my taste. Every time I try GNOME or Failsafe GNOME, I get the following error message: There was an error startin the GNOME Settings