Re: Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse

2004-06-10 Thread Simon L
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..? Any suggestions atleast some combo of them.. Regards, Vijaya Hello, Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer. You need to have severa

Re: $PATH and /etc/profile

2004-06-09 Thread Simon L
Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:36:14AM +, Simon L wrote: I checked a bit more this file and I found the line "DAEMON=" so I added the /bin/bash here, but it did nothing (yes I rebooted :P ) Did you put it in quotes, like this? DAEMON="/bin/bash /usr/b

Re: automatic login - kiosk

2004-06-09 Thread Simon L
Matt Kay wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a kiosk and my missing link is finding a way of bypassing the user input needed at the login shell, such that when the machine starts up, the 'kiosk' user is automatically logged in without need for any input. I have been fiddling around with inittab, su

Re: $PATH and /etc/profile

2004-06-09 Thread Simon L
Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:41:08PM +, Simon L wrote: I wonder if you could find the line in your startup script that says "kdm" and just change it to read "/bin/bash kdm". I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS and make no claim that it will work, but it would explain

Re: $PATH and /etc/profile

2004-06-08 Thread Simon L
Carl Fink wrote: Note: I'm far from an expert. On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:12:05PM +0000, Simon L wrote: When I log in text mode, the entire PATH is there as I want, I can "startx" and when I open a terminal, the PATH is perfect. Now, if I start the computer with KDM and that I

Re: $PATH and /etc/profile

2004-06-08 Thread Simon L
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Simon L: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Simon L: In my /etc/profile file, I wrote: "PATH="/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"" First, yo

Re: $PATH and /etc/profile

2004-06-08 Thread Simon L
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Simon L: In my /etc/profile file, I wrote: "PATH="/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"" When I log in text mode, the entire PATH is there as I want, I can "

$PATH and /etc/profile

2004-06-08 Thread Simon L
In my /etc/profile file, I wrote: "PATH="/opt/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"" When I log in text mode, the entire PATH is there as I want, I can "startx" and when I open a terminal, the PATH is perfect. Now, if I start the

Re: Multimedia Optimisation

2004-06-07 Thread Simon L
Chris Metzler wrote: On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:15:14 + Simon L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now I am all :S It wrote 362.600 FPS so I said to myself "how come". I ran "Tuxracer" and now it works... I don't know what happened, I don't know what I did, but now

Re: Multimedia Optimisation

2004-06-07 Thread Simon L
Chris Metzler wrote: On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:55:05 + Simon L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:02:43 + Simon L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I will take a concrete example: "Tuxracer". I can run it (at approx 1frame/se

Re: Multimedia Optimisation

2004-06-07 Thread Simon L
Chris Metzler wrote: On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:02:43 + Simon L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I will take a concrete example: "Tuxracer". I can run it (at approx 1frame/sec). Whoa. If you're only getting 1 fps on tuxracer, that strongly suggests you're using soft

Re: Larger screen size

2004-06-07 Thread Simon L
Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: I am currently only able to use 800x600. When I use Knoppix I can use a larger screen. How can I get the same options as when I use Knoppix? Could I copy some files from Knoppix? Thanks, Jacob Just run "xf86config" in console mode and when it asks you the resolution you

Re: Multimedia Optimisation

2004-06-07 Thread Simon L
Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 05:02, Simon L wrote: I will take a concrete example: "Tuxracer". I can run it (at approx 1frame/sec). With any linux distribution, it is always at that speed that I go, except one time I got one that ran Tuxracer at a very good speed (li

Re: Software to create 3D buttons for use on web pages, etc

2004-06-07 Thread Simon L
Kevin Murphy wrote: I'm interested in creating 3D-buttons, ideally with a rounded, ray-traced look. Anybody have any advice? I am hoping that someone has scripted one of the major graphics programs to help automate this process. I.e. it seems that it should not be too difficult to have a front

Re: Multimedia Optimisation

2004-06-07 Thread Simon L
Erik Steffl wrote: Simon L wrote: Do you know where I could find informations on how to make my Debian computer go faster for all the media things? I know that my computer can go much more faster than now, because it does on Windows and I would like to do the same on linux. depends on what

Multimedia Optimisation

2004-06-06 Thread Simon L
Do you know where I could find informations on how to make my Debian computer go faster for all the media things? I know that my computer can go much more faster than now, because it does on Windows and I would like to do the same on linux. Thanks for the links -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI