running gnome from a live cd is going to be a bit painful, unless you have a really fast cd-rom (at least 48x) and a reasonably fast processor. On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:05:48AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: > Hi, > > I'm totally new to X and I have no idea what I'm doing. I am running > grml 1.1rc1 and a 1.70 GHZ processor with 256 MB of RAM. I did > "aptitude install gnome-orca" and it installed a bunch of things. I ran > the Orca setup and it talked. What else do I need to do to start Gnome > with speech? There is no program called gnome on my system. I tried > "startx" but it just sits there and puts me on tty7 with no text. I > tried grml-x to set up X and it wants to know what window manager to > use. I tried putting in gnome but it couldn't find it. I finally > randomly picked fluxbox but nothing. I tried again with openbox but > still nothing. What do I need to do? What else do I need to install? > What window manager should I use? If there's a web page somewhere I > should be reading, please point me to it. I can run startx and it shows > a bunch of startup messages with some warnings but that's it except > switching me to tty7. I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do. If I > just run orca by itself after I run startx, I get an error that the > display environment is not set. Any help is appreciated. Does it > matter what window manager I pick? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Convention organizer to Linus Torvalds: "You might like to come with us to some licensed[1] place, and have some pizza." Linus: "Oh, I did not know that you needed a license to eat pizza". [1] Licenced - refers in Australia to a restaurant which has government licence to sell liquor. -- Linus at a talk at the Melbourne University
