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id like to thank everyone who helped me here ill be off for vacation see ya in november!

installing Window Manager

i wanted to run SAWMILL as window manager (im not using ximian so i couldnt install sawfish) on gdm. i did: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and then i chose SAWMILL as the window manager from the list. BUT: i thought i should edit a file, particularly .xinitrc or .xsession... i

XDM or GNOME???

i installed potato on my machine, and i had XDM as the window manager. i wanted to switch to GNOME, so i put: exec gnome-session in my .xinit file (/etc/X11/xinitrd/.xinit --- i hope its the right path...) 1. did i do the right thing??? i mean is it the right file? 2. there is this GNOME p

GRUB

my grub does not see the vmlinuz file... entries looks like this: #Entry 0: title Debian root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root/dev/hda3 #Entry 1 title Win root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 ## i dont know what i did wrong, windoze is loading properly, and when i select d

SiS6326 problem

ive got this graphics card (SIS6326) and i have a big problem with setting the resolution and size of the screen. im working with XF86Config file and im trying to put those modes, but i always get too big screen for my monitor. i dont have any virtula lines in the file.. but i just dont know how to

non-linux disk access

can i have access to non-linux disks (other partitions than linux partition) ??? anyone can tell me, please, how can i do this?