Ever since I upgraded from 8.2 RC1 to the official 8.2 release, gdm
won't start. When I come up into runlevel 5, it tries to start, and for
a brief moment the X cursor and the greyish background flicker onto
the screen, but then they flicker off again. After 5 tries, it gives up
and says Failed
Problem solved -- for me, anyway. I saved my .config to a separate
area, did a make mrproper, then started the whole process over again
-- loaded my config, then repeated the whole compilation. Worked fine,
modules and all, no nasty errors.
- Kathy
I wrote:
I just updated an 8.2-RC1 machine
I've been having this problem for quite a while: on my desktop machine running
8.1, and on a Dell at work on which I just installed 8.2 RC1. The permissions
for my ~/.gnome/gdm file are as Mr. Necro suggested they should be.
When I ran the GDM Configurator and change the default Session to
Thanks so much, everyone, for your recommendations. I'm certainly entering
into this project much more informed. I think I'm definitely going to use a
separate machine for my file server, but it's neat to know I don't have to
(which didn't occur to me before).
- Kathy
Kathy Montgomery wrote
I have a Windows 98/Mandrake regular computer and a Win 98/Mandrake
laptop. That's 4 separate filesystems on which to be confused about
where I have left my files. For that reason, I was thinking about
creating a little LAN (that would not need to be connected to the
Internet), and setting up a
Anyone able to get an IBM EtherJet PC Card working with Mandrake 8.1 and
pcmcia-cs 3.1.31? I've read several different things on different web
sites, and perhaps the first part of the problem is finding out exactly
what solution I should be using for my specific card.
I tried looking into a
I posted this to the newbie list and didn't receive any suggestions.
Anyone care to take a stab at my problem?
Thanks,
Kathy
Original Message
Subject: [newbie] cups and windows shared printer - stumped
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:25:01 -0500
From: Kathy Montgomery [EMAIL
I am not an expert on Apache, but I found your question interesting and
I poked around. Rather than move files around to accomodate your
URL, you might be able to tell Apache to use a desired URL format to point
to the user's web directory. See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/urlmapping.html#user
