Hi list, I reactivated my old HP Gecko 712/80 and installed debian on it. Everything worked fine so far (started with minimum system). But now here's the noodle scratcher................. I ran tasksel, because I decided to install GNOME, KDE, etc. But the installation brings back an error message: twm is dependend on x-windows but can't be installed (yes thats true, looked it up under package search @ debian.org! This package is NOT for HPPA!)
Well surprise surprise :-( After that I made the decision to simply install the packages I'd need to install and run GNOME. So I installed, gdm, gnome-core, x-windows-core without any problems. Doing an apt-get install x-windows brings me back to the point I started from in tasksel................ twm can't be installed but x-windows is dependend on it :-( So I said, well what the f*ck, maybe the x-window-core is enough and started gdm, but it just won't start up. Debian asks me if the system itself should give it a try, tries, but still nothing, no gfx on my screen :-( The screen turns black several times, but no gfx logon pops up). I'm quite a hacker with linux, but I never ever touched the gfx stuff, so I'm left out in the cold. Anybody out there who can tell me a workaround, or what I did wrong in the first place? Or even better, how Gnome needs to be installed correctly, maybe I'm just missing a package? And if I'm lucky the package x-windows is not needed (I don't think so though, but who knows)? Any help is greatly appreciated, Jens a.k.a. Simmel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
