jdavidow
09-23-2005, 12:38 PM
Here's a good one...
I am running a debian server at my house, and I love it. But it's running on really old hardware (PII-233-and-a-diamond-stealth-old). But it works great for mail, web, mysql, samba.
It runs headless- I use it to maintain my network, and the rest of my clients are windows. I use cygwin to manage the server.
LAst week I finally hooked up a terminal and tried to get gnome to run. It looks like the Stealth card I have is unsupported, and I don't want to deal with that (long story- the MB won't boot with any other card I found. I know, time for new hardware).
So I decided to try and use cygwin to run Xwindows and connect to Gnome.
AND IT WORKED!!!
Once.
When I tried to log out, it seemed to just sit there. Finally I killed the Xwin session on windows cygwin.
But now I cannot connect again. The Xwindow comes up, but it doesn't load gnome. Just sits there until I kill it.
I actually did this once before with a FC2 system, and got the same result.
Any ideas why it works the first time, then not again?
I am running a debian server at my house, and I love it. But it's running on really old hardware (PII-233-and-a-diamond-stealth-old). But it works great for mail, web, mysql, samba.
It runs headless- I use it to maintain my network, and the rest of my clients are windows. I use cygwin to manage the server.
LAst week I finally hooked up a terminal and tried to get gnome to run. It looks like the Stealth card I have is unsupported, and I don't want to deal with that (long story- the MB won't boot with any other card I found. I know, time for new hardware).
So I decided to try and use cygwin to run Xwindows and connect to Gnome.
AND IT WORKED!!!
Once.
When I tried to log out, it seemed to just sit there. Finally I killed the Xwin session on windows cygwin.
But now I cannot connect again. The Xwindow comes up, but it doesn't load gnome. Just sits there until I kill it.
I actually did this once before with a FC2 system, and got the same result.
Any ideas why it works the first time, then not again?