Configuring X-Windows in Woody (Novice help)

2004-07-12 Thread Janjs Jangori
Confession: Am a complete novice and just had my first Linux installed by following the 'Installing Debian Linux 3.0(Woody)'. However, when I login as root and type startx to get my GUI running I get the err message x connection to :0.0 broken (Explicit kill or Server Shutdown) I did realise th

Re: Re: Configuring X-Windows in Woody (Novice help)

2004-07-13 Thread Janjs Jangori
Many thanks Kent. The magic number PCI:1:0:0 worked!!!. For the first time I saw the GENOME desktop on my own PC :-). However, the writings are blurred and the mouse pointer is big, but at least I can click and something happens. Oh! my God I have a lot of fiddling to do. I guess I can edit /etc

KDE Fonts Too Large

2004-07-14 Thread Janjs Jangori
Many thanks folks on my 'Configuring X-Windows in Woody'. Slowely but surely am becoming a Debianologist but I have a long way to go. Through your help I have seen my first KDE desktop and was able to click through. Apart from the little blurring(I might have to putup with this until I learn so

mbox files for Debian Archives

2004-08-16 Thread Janjs Jangori
We are writing a research paper and our primary research data uses the Debain-User Mailing List Archives. Our Python script reads and uses a mbox file as an input instead of html. Is there any Debian mbox file of the latest archives? Best Regards