Thanks. I don't have a mouse attached, so I guess I'll need to wait with this until I get one. Greg On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:59:46PM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > Did you configure X correctly? My guess is that X locked up either due to lack of configuration or incorrect configuration. Best way is to run xfree86-setup > utility that comes with slack, then edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and put in your monitor's horizontal and vertical sync rates if you need to. Also, make sure you > have a mouse plugged in, I've had X lock up on me for having no mouse. > I think you may be going about starting gnome and gnopernicus the wrong way. What you probably want to do is: > 1. link /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, this is probably why you only heard a very small bit of hd activity. Gnome was probably not the > default window manager. > 2. log in as your user in text mode and issue: > gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true > 3. export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge:gail-gnome > export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 > 4. run startx > 5. within gnome, press alt+f2 and type gnopernicus and press enter > If everything's set up, that'll make it come up talking. I'd advise adding the export lines to .bash_profile. The gconftool-2 command only needs to be issued > once. You can make gnopernicus start automatically from within gnome's control center accessibility options. Note in general, starting X apps from the > console isn't the best way to do it. > HTH > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
