Great little big system
Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Great little big system
started by: AgustinCórdoba
Posted by AgustinCórdoba on Oct. 24 2004,14:35
Installed DSL onto the 2nd partition (300Mb). First patition is Win98 Fat32. Ths hard drive plugs in through a Promise 133 card as I have multiple hard drives.As I was putting it on a box already running Debian Sarge and two versions of the Spanish Guadalinex, selecting OS on boot using GRUB, I deselected the install option for LiLo boot, subsequently putting in a new entry for GRUB. Was slightly confused because I expected vmlinuz in /boot when in fact it is linux24, but after a couple of errors I got it right.
Got Synaptic running adequately, though I ran into dependency problems when I wanted to install something called newsx so I opted out and installed knode instead (though I really wanted pan)
Hardest has been finding the right browser. I like the modified version of Links, but it does have a few limitations (mostly to do with copying and pasting from the browser window). I tried to install Firefox 1.0PR but got a dependency problem (error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so 0: cannot open shared object file : no such file or directory) which I have been unable to solve. The MyDsl installable version of Firefox is 0.8 and mozilla.org flashes a security warning when this version is detected. I thought of looking at 0.93 in the Debian repositories, but cannot remember how to do this from a command line with apt-get.
For the moment I have installed Opera from MyDsl, but I feel much less at home with it.
In my case there is a regional difficulty, as I do a lot of my typing in Spanish and need to be able to configure a Spanish keyboard (I had forgotten that the keyboard could be selected using the CD-run system but not on the HD-installed version); this is a minor issue except that accents don't work, which meant I had some trouble logging in this afternoon.
Everything is seems to be working fine, with the accustomed Debian stability.
Sylpheed is a fine email client; not quite in the Thunderbird league (but much lighter). I'll probably try using Calypso once I-ve got Wine running.
I'm not quite sure which viewer to use for .avi files. Now I have to check the instant messengers.
Regards
Agustin
Posted by AgustinCórdoba on Oct. 24 2004,22:07
Less than 6 hours later, and I've already put my foot in it 
Somehow or other I've managed to trash the flux menu that appears on right click, or at least most of the entries. I am left with only Term, Restart and Quit...
I spent a while messing around with Synaptic, looking at dependency questions, but I'm not sure what I may have altered that could have changed the menu.
Is there a logfile where a list changes is kept?
Regards,
Agustin
Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 25 2004,05:20
You probably are running the xserver as user "root" instead of user dsl.Try typing these in from the consolecommand line after exiting the window manager:
sudo su dsl
xsetup.sh
startx