Hello Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> The program xdm says it's loaded, but there is no gui visible, just the
> prompt. Perhaps I misunderstood what xdm is, at least I have a prompt. I
You can have the computer start with either the text prompt or xdm
even if you have both installed. This is set by
On 13 Nov 1998, David Z. Maze wrote:
[snip]
>
> Bill> All of the above should not be except the Linux version. How do
> Bill> I go about getting Linux to recognize the system correctly? The
> Bill> boot sees it all correctly including the correct ID of the SCSI
> Bill> drives. I screwed up somewh
Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> The program xdm says it's loaded, but there is no gui visible,
Bill> just the prompt. Perhaps I misunderstood what xdm is, at least I
Bill> have a prompt. I tried startx and it said no such file or
Bill> directory. Whatever, I'll eventually figure it out.
Hm
> >
> > Overall, I'm very satisfied with the upgrade so far. Note that I
> > upgraded the whole system unit in one shot (CPU/motherboard/memory).
> > Also note that if your motherboard comes with an USB port, make sure
> > you can disable it through the BIOS setup program ; Linux seems to
> > dis
>
> Overall, I'm very satisfied with the upgrade so far. Note that I
> upgraded the whole system unit in one shot (CPU/motherboard/memory).
> Also note that if your motherboard comes with an USB port, make sure
> you can disable it through the BIOS setup program ; Linux seems to
> dislike USBs.
I had to respond via the list because of a munged mail header...person who
wrote this message is Benoit Goudreault...
>Item per item:
>
>Processor: OK
>motherboard: No idea, probably fine.
>video: OK. I've heard of some problems with the latest XFree and
> the S3 serve
> Hi folks!
>
> I've just finished the hardware part of building my very own PC Compatible
> (AMD K5-166, Amptron PM8600 motherboard, 32MB RAM, S3 Trio64+ 2MB video
> card, Creative Labs SoundBlaster Vibra16 audio, Hitachi 7730 IDE 4X CD-ROM,
> Quantum Bigfoot 4.3GB IDE HD, Teac 1.44MB HD, soon to
Hi!
> Quantum Bigfoot 4.3GB IDE HD, Teac 1.44MB HD, soon to be getting a Seagate
> [Conner] 800MB Tape Drive) and am tweaking Windows95 into submission.
^
I thought you didn't want to quote: "line Bill Gates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Ms. Geek wrote:
>
> > Are there still any pitfalls to using Debian Linux with the K5 chip or any
> > of the other hardware I mentioned above? Eventually I plan on upgrading to
>
> I dont know about any other hardware, but I am running Debian o
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Ms. Geek wrote:
> Are there still any pitfalls to using Debian Linux with the K5 chip or any
> of the other hardware I mentioned above? Eventually I plan on upgrading to
I dont know about any other hardware, but I am running Debian on my AMD
586/133mhz motherboard and it work
Ms. Geek wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> I've just finished the hardware part of building my very own PC Compatible
> (AMD K5-166, Amptron PM8600 motherboard, 32MB RAM, S3 Trio64+ 2MB video
> card, Creative Labs SoundBlaster Vibra16 audio, Hitachi 7730 IDE 4X CD-ROM,
> Quantum Bigfoot 4.3GB IDE HD, Teac
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