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sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
but its ugly, i usually need several tries.
keep a backup of /etc/X11/xorg.conf .

May also work to get that file from another distro, eg that mephis, 
and overwrite it. the resolution-stuff  etc is in that file.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2
thats how to run 32bit on 64bt gentoo. not too easy, but possible.

For debian it looks easy for most programms. SInce ubuntu is a debian 
that trick may work too: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292233

thanks, i'll try

so i've got it working somehow, core works, but view and altme does 
not run with following error: User Error : REBOL : Cannot obtain 
default font

ah, now it works! :)

What did you do ?

I've searched Synaptic for "font", instaled lot of them, rebooted 
and it started working :) First I've installed ia32 libraries from 
Volker's link.

Very good. Good to hear it's working.

I've heard about that font error from someone who upgraded from Ubuntu 
Breezy to Ubuntu Dapper. Did you do that?

no, I installed fresh 64bit Dapper (xubuntu) and tried to run 32bit 
REBOL/AltMe on it.

maybe the font problem is xfce related, not 64/32bit.

Rebolek, yes there is a 64 bit version

just installed Altme on Mandriva 2007 and seems to be working

How do i start a rebol-daemon from ssh? i usually use screen, but 
this server  lacks it.

I'm not sure what do you mean, if you are in shell just type ./rebol

then it goes down when i log out.

you must use disown

thanks :)

nohup

./rebol &

hrm...

I just installed Ubuntu (dual-boot on my laptop) and it seems to 
work fine for everything, even AltME - But I can't seem to get Rebol 
to even start up.

Altme is rebol ...

What error message you getting ? Sure you've got the right binary 
?

Nevermind... It not running had more to do with me being a complete 
newb at Linux than anything else.

(Being so used to Windows, I didn't realize you had to use "./rebol" 
rather than just "rebol" to start it up)

I got distracted and forgot about it just after posting that, so 
I didn't notice Tomc's post until later on

That would be for /Core, wouldn't it? For /View, you can just click 
on it in the graphical user interface like you can with AltME

To start /Core without the ./ path, you would have to add the path 
to the $PATH environment variable. The ./ current directory is usually 
not in there for security reasons

how can I set VIEW-ROOT ?

Um.. is it the REBOL_HOME variable ? try search for that...

Thanks, I'll try

Graham...  ODBC is supported on linux...  Here's on open source Firebird 
ODBC driver. http://www.xtgsystems.com/linux/ofbodbc/about.php

That's just one of the first links that I pulled off of Google, I 
didn't look very hard.

I set up a connection to MySQL from linux using MyODBC drivers back 
in 2002.  I'm sure if you wanted to you could get an ODBC set up 
running that would allow you to use Firebird from Linux.

Ammon - the thing might be, that maybe Linux version of Command does 
not support ODBC at all?

I was using a Linux version of Command to set it up.

Carl's answer - http://www.reboltalk.com/forum/index.php/topic,304.0.html

I know I had REBOL connecting to MySQL via ODBC on Linux...  I was 
playing with WINE heavily at the time though so I might have been 
running a windows version of REBOL on Linux to do it. ;-)

since Command on Linux does not support ODBC, I think that must have 
been the case!

What is your take on Gnome vs KDE? I know many prefer Gnome, but 
from what I've read about KDE 4, I think I like their concept :-)

KDE seems to be fully vector based desktop in the future. Also there 
will be common app IPC mechanism called D-Bus.

Maybe we should use something like 'liquid to base VID+ IPC upon 
:-)

Hehe, KDE 4 designer (or Trolltech's dev, dunno), just pissed off 
some Cairo fanboys :-) http://zrusin.blogspot.com/

Conclusion from all those tests is that right now Qt is leaps ahead 
of any other vector graphics framework in terms of raw performance. 
Nothing comes even close. Qt's OpenGL engine is so fast it's basically 
unfair to compare anything else to it.

I liked KDE when it started with version 1.0, then it started to 
look like a PlayMobil/Lego Desktop, now its upto perfect and leaves 
gnome far behind, not only based on GUI but also based on pratical 
use ;-)... But it still eats a damm lot of resources... you need 
to tune , but thats fun ;-)

My view is that KDE has always had better internals, but Gnome has 
a better interface

Let's put it this way: if I think about the technology under the 
hood, I don't like using Gnome, but working with KDE's user interface 
makes me cringe all the time

By the way, D-BUS is currently used much more in Gnome than in KDE. 
Case in point: Gnome hardly had anything before, but KDE has to move 
away from its own DCOP IPC

i'm using xfce and it's much better than KDE or Gnome (at least from 
my POV). Not so bloated, fast and configurable enough.