Re: cannot use debian because of too many problems...

2016-04-16 Thread Floris
The change from Windows to Debian is not always easy. You have to learn how to use it. When I have to explain what Debian is, I often compare it with LEGO. There are a lot of "bricks" which make your OS. And you can/ must decide which "bricks" (packages) you use. So in time you build an OS,

Re: cannot use debian because of too many problems...

2016-04-16 Thread Aero Maxx
On 16/04/2016 20:49, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:22:24AM +, Arnoud van der Veer wrote: Too many problems for me I must say! For a normal pc user this is not a good alternative for using Windows. Windows costs money, yes, but I have never, ever encountered so many

Re: cannot use debian because of too many problems...

2016-04-16 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:22:24AM +, Arnoud van der Veer wrote: > Too many problems for me I must say! For a normal pc user this is not a good > alternative for using Windows. Windows costs money, yes, but I have never, > ever > encountered so many problems on a pc running o

Re: cannot use debian because of too many problems...

2016-04-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 16 Apr 2016, Arnoud van der Veer wrote: > Hello, > > I am running into many problems unfortunately while using Debian.I > wish I knew how to solve them, but I don't.I tried to install DEVEDE > as a new package yesterday in order to be able to burn dvd's.I do not

Re: cannot use debian because of too many problems...

2016-04-16 Thread Dan Ritter
> I am running into many problems unfortunately while using Debian.I > wish I knew how to solve them, but I don't.I tried to install DEVEDE > as a new package yesterday in order to be able to burn dvd's.I do not > succeed in this, since the process of installing is not finish

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems - Solved

2013-09-03 Thread Luis Bandarra
Hi, On 02-09-2013 18:54, Thomas H. George wrote: apt-get install fglrx-driver has solved the problem. I had overlooked a message at the start of bootup stating a radeon nonfree display package might be required. (Its on the screen very briefly - it took me three reboots to read it). I think i s

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems - Solved, Not Entirely

2013-09-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:54:42PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > apt-get install fglrx-driver has solved the problem. > > I had overlooked a message at the start of bootup stating a radeon > nonfree display package might be required. (Its on the screen very > briefly - it took me three reboots

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems - Solved

2013-09-02 Thread Thomas H. George
apt-get install fglrx-driver has solved the problem. I had overlooked a message at the start of bootup stating a radeon nonfree display package might be required. (Its on the screen very briefly - it took me three reboots to read it). The notes on the fglrx-driver actually suggest trying the newe

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems, little help

2013-09-01 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/31/2013 02:21 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > Still trying to solve this problem I ran two straces. > Summary: The system will boot as xdm with 6 virtual terminal, no x > window > OR > The system will boot as gdm3 with a gnome desktop, no virtual

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems, little help

2013-08-31 Thread Thomas H. George
Still trying to solve this problem I ran two straces. strace -f -e trace=open,read /etc/init.d/xdm restart This trace ends "xdm is not the default manager" after reading /usr/sbin/xdm from the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager. There is no file xdm in /usr/sbin/ although xdm is installed. s

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems

2013-08-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:37:04AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/30/13, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Problem: On initial bootup there is a message that gdm3 is not fully > > installed, probably a hardware problem. (The Gigabyte mb has onboard > > video AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics) > > > > Pr

Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems

2013-08-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/30/13, Thomas H. George wrote: > Problem: On initial bootup there is a message that gdm3 is not fully > installed, probably a hardware problem. (The Gigabyte mb has onboard > video AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics) > > Problem: Despite bootup message classic gnome display appears and works > but s

tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems

2013-08-29 Thread Thomas H. George
Netinst Wheezy with linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 Problem: On initial bootup there is a message that gdm3 is not fully installed, probably a hardware problem. (The Gigabyte mb has onboard video AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics) Problem: Despite bootup message classic gnome display appears and works but sw

Re: Many problems.......

2007-10-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 03:28:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > Forgive me for my ignorance because I'm a newbie to Debian world. I > recently installed Debian Eatch and I'm getting following problems- I know you are frustrated and unsure of what you are doing, but really, plea

Re: DHCP & apache errors. [was: Many problems.......]

2007-10-14 Thread s. keeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > recently installed Debian Eatch and I'm getting following problems- > > 1. Some times my IP number is getting changed to some unknown IP > numbers and after that I'm not able to connect to Internet. (we are > having DHCP) Where is the dhcp server?

Many problems.......

2007-10-14 Thread anand
Dear all, Forgive me for my ignorance because I'm a newbie to Debian world. I recently installed Debian Eatch and I'm getting following problems- 1. Some times my IP number is getting changed to some unknown IP numbers and after that I'm not able to connect to Internet. (we are having DHCP) 2. F

Re: Many problems with KDE2

2000-07-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 03:12:14PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: > Anyone else had any luck getting this mess to work? Every few weeks I do a cvsup run and check out the latest and greatest KDE2 source, but it is far from soup; it's beta, and imho, still early beta. The code base is being worked on r

Re: Many problems with KDE2

2000-07-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Well. Use HelixCode Gnome. :) Quoting Todd Suess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My system upgraded itself during an apt-get dist-upgrade today to KDE2, > and man did everything get hosed now. Just a few problems are: > > 1. kdm no longer starts at login, I enter username and password and

Many problems with KDE2

2000-07-15 Thread Todd Suess
My system upgraded itself during an apt-get dist-upgrade today to KDE2, and man did everything get hosed now. Just a few problems are: 1. kdm no longer starts at login, I enter username and password and get put into a shell terminal (Eterm) where I have to type /usr/bin/startkde for it to run.