VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-21 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; Just installed Sarge for the first time. I got VNC server up and running, and accessed it from my near-by Mac (Good ol' Mac OS 8.1... haven't downloaded Sarge PPC yet ;-) ). The X server pops up with the "X" cursor... but no window manager. How do I get it to start KDE when I start up a

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-22 Thread Eric Scott
On Sunday 21 November 2004 11:23 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:52 -0600, Eric Scott wrote: > [snip] > > > I had a similar problem under Mandrake Linux 9.1 once, and peeps just > > told me > > The sound that a baby chicken makes, told you to upgrade

Re: Newbie's question about hard disk partition

2004-11-22 Thread Eric Scott
Technically all you need is a "/" partition. A SWAP partition is highly recommened; it's the equivelant of virtual memory on Macintosh or Windows. The others are all optional, so that if one partition gets wiped the others live, or sometimes it's just handy. For example, I have SuSE Linux d

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-22 Thread Eric Scott
On Monday 22 November 2004 10:18 am, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:00:18 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > it might be reading ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. Put the KDE window > > manager binary path into that. I can'tremember what it's called, but > > for another window manager (say,

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

2004-11-22 Thread Eric Scott
On Monday 22 November 2004 10:30 am, Kent West wrote: > Eric Scott wrote: > >On Sunday 21 November 2004 11:23 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:52 -0600, Eric Scott wrote: > >>[snip] > >> > >>>I had a similar problem under Mand

Re: Newbie's question about hard disk partition

2004-11-23 Thread Eric Scott
On Monday 22 November 2004 8:54 am, Lian Liming wrote: > RRPotratz wrote: > > This CAN be confusing. Technically, the only partitions you NEED are > > / and swap. Even then you may not need swap if you've got a ton of > > RAM. That being said, still make a swap partition. > > > > When I try out

Re: Using xvncviewer to talk to Windows remote desktop?

2004-11-24 Thread Eric Scott
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 3:41 pm, Bill Wohler wrote: > I can use the Remote Desktop under Windows XP to display the desktop of > a particular Windows machine. I thought that I could install xvncviewer > on my (much-preferred) Debian box and run "xvncviewer windows-host-name" > and it would be si

Re: visual c++ equivalent

2004-12-09 Thread Eric Scott
Micha Feigin wrote: At Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:17:17 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:51:19PM +0800, ms linux wrote: is there a free visual c++ equivalent in linux ? searching so far I only found IBM XLC, but of course, it's not free. thanks, --m

.deb files arch independant?

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Heya! As I write I'm installeing Woody (Link to Sarge wasn't working... wasn't dead... just stalled, so I did woody for now) on my ol' PowerMac 7300 next to me. A while back I downloaded all 14 disks of Sarge for x86. With my one-disk Debian 3.0r3 PPC disk I'm installing the base system on m

Xfree86 setup on old-world Mac HELP!

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; Just installed Woody on my ol' PowerMac 7300 with it's integrated video system. How on earth do I get Xfree up and chipper? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 does it's "Please enter the video card's bux identifier," but lspci does me no good 'cuz it's not a PCI card. tips would be very he

Woody-->Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Hey, sorry to ask this FAQ, I know I've done it before, but google is NO help to me here. What exactly do I do to upgrade from Woody to Sarge. I know i have to plop something in sources.list, the do apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, but I can't find what. Just changing "stable" to "sarg

X driver?

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Scott
Yo, I just installed Debian 3.0. During the setup I set my graphics driver to VGA just 'cuz I didn't know what to use. After the install, X wouldn't start with a 'VGA can't support 24 bit" error or something like that. How do I change my video driver? I'm newbie to linux, so be easy o

X settings not applying?

2004-10-24 Thread Eric Scott
Heya, I've got a new woody installation. My Panasonic E15 monitor diplays up to 1024x768. 800x600 works with the default settings on basically any operating system, but to get 1024x768 to purr I had to tweak the refresh rate(s). First I figured out on Windows that it only works right unde

Sarge Base install not chipper

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I just downloaded disc 1 of Sarge (Kernal 2.4.27) the other day and went through the base system installation. I went into the bootloader (GRUB from my dual-booted SuSE 9.1 installation), selected Debian (Set to boot from /vmlinuz on the debian partition), and hit enter... the screen goes

PostgreSQL on Etch...

2006-01-14 Thread Eric Scott
    Yo; Got a new server (testing) setup.  While I was reinstalling my server I made the move from sarge to etch... not sure if that's what cause this or not.    My PostgreSQL-7.4 is acting up.  I'm pretty much a novice at all this, and don't know where to start to trouble shoot.  The service is ru

Re: PostgreSQL on Etch... - *SOLVED*

2006-01-15 Thread Eric Scott
anged that little line at the top of my postgresql.conf file and I'm good to go.  Took me all of 30 seconds. Tootles one and all, SigmaX On 1/15/06, Eric Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:     Yo; Got a new server (testing) setup.  While I was reinstalling my server I made the mo