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Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:34 pm

Hmm, don't remember ever seeing that KDE screen. Looks like you'll be reading some docs.

If ctrl-alt-minus doesn't switch you to 1280x1024 eventually then there's either something misconfigured or you need a different driver. I'm not too familiar with the NVidia drivers on Debian. Maybe Ickhor will chime in.

A quick way to check would be to open /etc/X11/XF86Config in a text editor, or less, and scroll down to where it defines screens. It should have "1280x1024" in there somewhere. I can't remember what the exact line would be.

Ickhor · Post by **Ickhor** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:59 pm

You're running stable. Realize that the goal of Debian stable is to provide a platform which will remain unchanging and supported for ~five years. I'm not sure exactly when woody (the current incarnation of stable) came out, I guess around 2001. It was before firefox came out, that's for sure. You can "apt-get install mozilla" to get the mozilla browser, which is the real browser that firefox is based off of.

Stable has old libraries, and the firefox binaries from The Mozilla Foundation will not run on them, you need to recompile firefox for stable if you want to use it, or find a backport that someone has already made ( Hint: http://www.backports.org/package.php?search=firefox , add that "deb ..." line to your /etc/apt/sources.list and "apt-get update" then "apt-get install firefox" )

You need to run "XF86Config" as root, that will give you a dialog driven frontend to writing a configuration file for XFree86.

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:24 am

Tried doing those steps Ickhor and it didn't seem to work.. when I run mozilla-firefox it loads but never pops up a browser. <shrug>

I was also wondering if there is anyway to put GRUB on my windows hard drive ?

Ickhor · Post by **Ickhor** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:47 am

Does it give you an error?

Yes, you can do that with grub.

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:30 am

No error... it just thinks for a while but never opens a browser.

I found this siteto help with the grub boot but I still can't get it to work. my two drives are labeled according to linux: hda(linux) hde(windows) According to that site, I set groot to my windows drive to make grub boot from there, I've tried (hd1,1) (hd5,0) but can't seem to get the right drive for hde...

Good news, I've got apache up and running (a lot easier than I thought) now to just get the second half of the LAMP. Thanks for all the help.

Midyarth · Post by **Midyarth** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:30 am

Gnome necro's for life...
R-i-p kzanntheman for being bzanned by the man.

Ickhor · Post by **Ickhor** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:20 am

hde would be (hd4), hde1 would be (hd4,0).

Grub works in base zero, so it's kinda confusing to convert.

Post by **Ddrak** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:43 am

Windows will probably throw a fit if it sees its drive letter changed too, though if your Linux partition doesn't have any windows-visible stuff on it you should be ok. XP and 2k have no problem booting from a secondary drive but if you're running 98 or ME then they are a real pain to set up with dual boot.

Sorry for the first response - I didn't understand your question.

I've been using Fedora personally (FC3 at the moment) and been enjoying it. :)

Dd

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:44 pm

I've tried editing groot to pretty much every combo except for what the current linux boot drive is set to and it still doesn't boot automatically or even boot to windows when I select it. I tried (hd4,0) (hd4,1) (hd4,2) ect ....

AuSerpent Sonoblade · Post by **AuSerpent Sonoblade** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:43 pm

Looks like ickhor has things in control...

I'm just here to add that Debian people are elitist bastards.
Gentoo is where it's at because computers are for compiling, not using.

Ickhor · Post by **Ickhor** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:05 pm

Debian people are elitist bastards, and it's the one thing that I hate the most about it. I really wish Debian had the community that Gentoo has.

Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:20 pm

I really like Gentoo, but it's just too painful on my P2-400 even with 2 other machines including a dual cpu maching running DistCC for it.

How is the drive you want to boot to connected? The primary IDE channel master should be HD0,x, slave HD1,x, etc for secondary ide channel, or at least I'm pretty sure it was for my last dual boot machine.

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:27 pm

Argh I seem to keep messing crap up on my Linux drive now... but I guess that is all about learning.

I was following instructions on how to intall Java for mozilla browser. (not firefox, just the mozilla that came with debian) I was on the last step, pointing the plug in to the mozilla folder and now mozilla won't start. It does the same thing as firefox... it just thinks for 10 seconds then doesn't do anything... <sigh>

Somehow when I try to navigate through my files in KDE, whenever I click on one it opens it with the Konqueror web browser and pops up a warning that says "could not open the file because it was a folder". I realize that I right click --> open with --> but I don't know which program to use to navigate around files.

I feel so stupid asking this stuff but thanks for the help so far.

Ickhor · Post by **Ickhor** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:42 pm

The mozilla plugin is probably compiled for a different compiler/library than your debian installation is.

If I remember correctly the JRE or JDK should come with plugins for multiple compilers.

JamiesanTGrauerwolf · Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:22 am

I am loving Gentoo with distcc. Plan on installing my third machine this weekend with Gentoo, and having all sort of help compiling from my other 2 machines. When it's all said and done, I will have 4 Gentoo machines all with distcc.

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:12 am

Ok, I finally got java going as well as flash and sound, but not complete sound. For some reason, the little system tray actions like minimize and maxamize will give little sounds as well as the basic media player but if I try viewing a flash page with sound on it, it won't play. Sound doesn't work with certain applications as well. Another third party media player that I installed said that the sound card was busy or something...