hi, I just installed potato on my pismo, and now I need some help setting up some basic stuff. I bet these are FAQs, but I checked the archive and came up with nothing too helpful, so..
1) how do I configure X to use german keyboard layout? this was tough under LinuxPPC, too, and I forgot how I did it.. =) my XF86Config (I'm using the default potato X server) currently reads Protocol "Standard" XkbLayout "de" XkbVariant "nodeadkeys" XkbModel "macintosh" XkbRules "xfree86" but this didn't help at all.. 2) how do I configure X to use both the trackpad and my USB mouse as input devive? my XF86Config says Device "/dev/mouse" and /dev/mouse is a symblic link to /dev/adbmouse. I tried changing the link to /dev/usbmouse, but that left me with no mouse or trackpad at all.. this is some new input layer stuff, right? 3) I set up ppp with pppconfig (according to http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/debian/chapter/ch11_04.html) and ppp connects fine, but for some reason I can't ping or lynx any damn server.. /var/log/messages says pppd[523]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 chat[524]: abort on (BUSY) chat[524]: abort on (NO CARRIER) chat[524]: abort on (VOICE) chat[524]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) chat[524]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) chat[524]: abort on (NO ANSWER) chat[524]: send (ATZ^M) chat[524]: expect (OK) chat[524]: ^M chat[524]: OK chat[524]: -- got it chat[524]: send (ATDT276760^M) chat[524]: expect (CONNECT) chat[524]: ^M chat[524]: ^M chat[524]: CARRIER 33600^M chat[524]: ^M chat[524]: PROTOCOL: LAP-M^M chat[524]: ^M chat[524]: COMPRESSION: V.42BIS^M chat[524]: ^M chat[524]: CONNECT chat[524]: -- got it chat[524]: send (\d) pppd[523]: Serial connection established. pppd[523]: Using interface ppp0 pppd[523]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 pppd[523]: Unsupported protocol 0x8207 received pppd[523]: local IP address 134.95.89.122 pppd[523]: remote IP address 134.95.89.1 and ifconfig gives me ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:134.95.88.91 P-t-P:134.95.88.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:16 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2 TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 but still, no ping or lynx.. the same ppp settings work fine under LinuxPPC.. ??? 3) whenever I log in to a gnome session, windows open in the left upper corner of my screen, with the title bar cut off by the screen boundaries, so I can't move them. in debian sessions, I'm happily using icewm.. so how do I get gnome to use it, too? 4) we're almost there.. I'd love to use gcj (the java frontend for gcc/egcs), but I just can't find libgcj for either debian or LinuxPPC. is anyone actually using it? thanks for any help. once my system is running smoothly, I'll be happy to post a summary or whip up a website. for some reason, there seem to be very few debian-ppc specific websites and tutorials out there. or am I missing something? TIA, -otto.
