Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread G.LeeJohnson
> > 1. Don't use "su -", try "su". Your environment variables stay > the same. Unfortunately this can be a problem because normal > users don't have /sbin and /usr/sbin in their PATH. thats what I get for thinking today...of course just "su"..stupido ..thanks for reminding me ..yikes cu l

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread G.LeeJohnson
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Upon su -'ing from console to say use gedit it says > > > cannot open display (for root)..reg user is finehow > > > do i fix this. > > > > > I think you need to allow other 'hosts' to connect to your > > display. You can turn this on with: xhosts + > > > > as a

cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread G.LeeJohnson
Upon su -'ing from console to say use gedit it says cannot open display (for root)..reg user is finehow do i fix this. Thanks lee -===

Re: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2001-06-21 Thread G.LeeJohnson
I'm trying to do a upgrade to unstable from stable progeny and I did the ususal: apt-get update ..then apt-get dist-upgrade something went wrong during i think computer froze and I wasn't able to respond to prompts given..what did happen though is now netscape seems symlinked to that

dist-upgrade failure

2001-06-20 Thread G.LeeJohnson
upgrading probeny to unstable via: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ...IT was all going quite well ( i have to answer alot of questions maybe I made mistake somewhere) till: --- Unpacking replacement gftp ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/ca

Re: installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread G.LeeJohnson
> > May I suggest that you forget all that? To me the simpler way would be to > get the source for the kernel, set it up according to the Kernel-HOWTO at > www.linuxdoc.org, build yourself a kernel, run make-kpkg to make yourself > a set of kernel-source,kernel-image, and kernel-doc deb files (they

installing new kernel

2001-06-19 Thread G.LeeJohnson
hi.. How do i get 2.4.5 to install with debian?..i know about compiling myself but i'm unsure how to incoorporate those changes with debian although i could do it blind-folded in RH.. It seems that when I installed Progeny it gave me info at one of the install screens saying Progeny comes with