[mphair]

so i have all of my music on a debian system. in the past, i have had to copy the music over to a winmachine to be able to update my ipod. With my increasing music collection, this is getting to be tedious. I would like to be able to plug my ipod into my debian system and have it updated
i found one program "gtkpod", however this is a GUI and apparently GUI-ONLY. I have tried, and failed, many times to get X running. So that is not the route i want to go unless i need to.
is there either a way to run gui apps as text-based? or does anyone know of a non-gui app for updating an ipod?
thanks,
gtard

[rob.rice]

your missing out on a lot by not having X running
SOOO let's get X running for you
enter this command "X -configure "
then do as X says to test the configuration it has just writen
do check the mouse
if it works use alt+crtl+backspace to stop X
if not run "X -probeonly" and show us what it says
tell us what video card you have
there may be more work to do to get the mouse working
(can you cut and past from the command line if so your running gmp run "man gmp" and it will tell you how to use X and gmp at the same time )
sound what kernel are you running alsa may already have the sound card configured
if every thing is working copy your Xorg.conf or XF86config to /etc/X11/Xwhatever
run "startx"
if you want to boot into X make a back up copy of /etc/inittab then edit the defualt run levle to 4
if it dosent work come back here for more help

[brendandonhu]

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/