Re: Misc. Newb Help
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:22 -0500, Eric P wrote:
1. Nvidia driver - is there a Debian way to approach this? Or just run
the Nvidia installer?
apt-get install module-assistant ; m-a a-i nvidia
That worked (once I installed the kernel-header file). The nvidia
driver is still not kicking in (I did a cold reboot too), so how do I
activate the nvidia driver? Do I need to muck with the XF86Config{,-4}
files?
2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being
sourced ever. Any idea why? I tried .profile as well w/o any luck.
Note: my .bashrc is being sourced.
Okay, are you talking for your *X* environment or CLI or both?
I guess it was .profile (not .bash_profile) that I was used to on SuSE.
Anyway, I could be wrong, but my understanding was that you should put
commands in your ~/.profile file to be sourced once (and only once) when
you first log into the system. So I always would add the PATH (i.e.,
PATH=$PATH:/home/${USER}/bin) in my .profile
So to finally answer your question, I'd like .profile sourced for the
user session (whether X is loaded or not) so that everything subsequent
terminal after login would have access to the executable scripts in ~/bin
>>3. Japanese input. I installed Debian in Japanese, and Canna was
installed and starts automatically on boot as a result. Also,
Kinput2-canna-wnn is installed (can't remember if I installed or what),
but it's not being started anywhere. I think if I could solve issue #2,
I could slap the following lines in .bash_profile to get kinput2 running
$ pidof kinput2 >/dev/null || kinput2 &
$ export XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2
Pretty much. If we get your explanation a bit better for the #2 problem,
we should be able to help.
Those 2 commands above currently work if typed on the command line
followed by a program that can handle Japanese input. I think SuSE had
a script /etc/X11/xim which loaded on boot which was more or less these
2 commands.
4. (a bit more esoteric) Anyone ever install ColdFusion MX developer? I
had it running under SuSE 9.2 on top of Apache... Just curious before I try.
> So, in summary, make sure you are doing the right thing and minimizng
your exposure. Coldfusion works fine, I have had MX working on Sarge as
recent as 2 months ago. Since nothing really significant has changed...
it should be okay. I did have some issues that were resolvable. But, I
am not you and it is not my machine, so YMMV.
Good deal. I'm only intending to use it on my local web server.
Nothing public. Just so I can play around with new ideas for my job.
Thanks for your help so far!
Eric P.
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