Install CD won't boot Cube
I just painstakingly downloaded the three Debian install .iso's and burned them to CD. Put in the first disk and restarted while pressing "c." Result (white on a black screen): Wrong partition 1 signature config file need 613 bytes Debian Gnu Linux PowerPC potato Boot _ (here I type an 'L') Loading kernel Wrong partition signature Elf32 Kernel loaded loading ramdisk wrong partition 1 signature (change to black on gray screen): ...K copying OF device tree ...done calling quiesce ... booting... Then it freezes right there. Anyone seen/fixed this? -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare -- http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer"
Where to find these settings?
OK, Woody running well on stock 8600. I can't remember the config file to allow apt-get to use unstable directories (ie. to get newer versions than stable). Also can I get back to dual boot via BootX? I must've not quite caught that the install was going to take over booting with no options. I have Mac OS on one internal drive, Woody on the other, of course Mac OS gives me BootX' Mac or Linux boot option, but my current setup bypasses that somehow. -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Communications/Web Specialist Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer."
Frozen cursor after logout; CLI escape
Two questions now that I've upgraded. Debian always goes to a graphic login. I've tried changing /etc/inittab to runlevel 3, 4 and 5 but have never gotten a text login. How do I? I have been using (since root obviously can't log in graphically) control-option-F1 to get a command line to use as root, but can't figure out how to toggle back out of that (to the user login) and when I try to log in as my user, the screen tells me there's already an xserver running (the existing graphic login screen). Tried doing control-option-F1 (hoping for a toggle), command z, command x, etc. But can't seem to leave that screen. Also, whenever I do use graphic login to start a user session, and then logout to the graphic login screen, may cursor is *always* frozen, even though it just worked in the previous session. Woody, PM8600. -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Communications/Web Specialist Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer."
Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot
At about 1:08 PM -0500 on 1/13/03, Allan Streib wrote: Don't know. My 6500 is a PCI machine. I only have 32 MB RAM, though. Allan On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: So if it prompts me for nothing after I try to boot from the .img file, that means something like I don't have enough memory to complete the installation i'm guessing I'm using a 7100/80 with NuBus. I think it has 24MB. is there an even more > scaled-down kernel I can use? NuBus machines require a special kernel. You can find some here, although everything seems to be about 1.5 years old, so don't know how it would work with the packages on your CD. Looks like kernel 2.4.4 ... -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Communications/Web Specialist Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer."
Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot
At about 12:50 PM -0700 on 1/13/03, Marc Stergionis wrote: At about 1:08 PM -0500 on 1/13/03, Allan Streib wrote: Don't know. My 6500 is a PCI machine. I only have 32 MB RAM, though. Allan On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: So if it prompts me for nothing after I try to boot from the .img file, that means something like I don't have enough memory to complete the installation i'm guessing I'm using a 7100/80 with NuBus. I think it has 24MB. is there an even more > scaled-down kernel I can use? NuBus machines require a special kernel. You can find some here, although everything seems to be about 1.5 years old, so don't know how it would work with the packages on your CD. Looks like kernel 2.4.4 ... Oops ... guess an url would help: <http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/#binaries> -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Communications/Web Specialist Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer."
X won't start
I've just installed Debian on an 8600 (upgraded to G4-400). When I boot, I get a good bootup process, then 4 gray screens flash before I get a prompt (text login). when I ask to startx, I get lots of screen resolutions and frequencies running by (they all say "deleted") then (paraphrasing somewhat) frambefuffer device: control video memory 4095k 0x94800010 type 0 type_aux 0 bit per pixel 8 hardware acceleration none no driver support for hardware acceleration bpp = 8 depth = 8 bits per RGB 8 Fatal server error cannot open mouse (no such device) So I think it's a mouse problem. I have a standard Apple ADB mouse and a Logitech USB Orbit. They're usually both plugged in, but I get the same result even when each is plugged in by itself. As Debian loads, it actually recognizes (registers?) the Logitech, because I see its name go by during bootup. I do not recall ever having the opportunity to configure video or mouse (one of which I imagine is the problem) except that I told the installer not to try to automatically do video. That's because the same thing happened on my *first* install, yesterday, when I *did* allow it to automagically do video config ... I've also tried unchecking "force video driver" in BootX (1.2.3) options. Same result. The install is from the standard, stable .iso images I downloaded last fall --- (2.2r4 or 2.2r2? I think?) I have tried typing Xconfigurator Xconfig /usr/X11/XF86Config-4 /usr/X11/XF86Config /etc/XF86Config-4 and every other idea I can get from searching the site. No dice, it always returns "no such file." Where do I find/fix the config to get past this? TIA -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X won't start
At sometime around 8:11 PM -0700 on 6/12/02, Chris Tillman wrote thus: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:47:31PM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: I've just installed Debian on an 8600 (upgraded to G4-400). When I boot, I get a good bootup process, then 4 gray screens flash before I get a prompt (text login). when I ask to startx, I get lots of screen resolutions and frequencies running by (they all say "deleted") then (paraphrasing somewhat) No need to paraphrase, the log is located at /var/log/XFree86.0.log Probably, you need to set your mouse device to /dev/input/mice in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. However, I'm pretty confident that's not going to be enough. Powermac support in X was pretty shaky in the potato distribution you installed, it would behoove you to upgrade to woody. To do that, please try man apt-get or man aptitude and look for dist-upgrade. Thanks Chris ... as in man apt-get, I first did apt-get update, and got Lists and dependencies updated. apt-get dist-update returns: 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded I'm missing an argument perhaps? -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X won't start
Sometime around 7:11 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote thus: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:54:08AM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: At sometime around 8:11 PM -0700 on 6/12/02, Chris Tillman wrote thus: [...] >Probably, you need to set your mouse device to /dev/input/mice in the >/etc/X11/XF86Config file. However, I'm pretty confident that's not >going to be enough. Powermac support in X was pretty shaky in the >potato distribution you installed, it would behoove you to upgrade to >woody. To do that, please try man apt-get or man aptitude and look for >dist-upgrade. Thanks Chris ... as in man apt-get, I first did apt-get update, and got Lists and dependencies updated. apt-get dist-update That should be "dist-upgrade" :) Oh yeah, that's what I did/meant ... returns: 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded I'm missing an argument perhaps? You'll need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point apt-get to woody instead of potato. To put it simply, you just have to substitute all occurrences of "potato" with "woody". Then, you should do apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade and have a cup of coffee while the packages are being downloaded :) At this point, /etc/apt/sources.list has uncommented only my "Potato Official powerpc Binary" CDs, 1, 2 & 3. None of the entries above that say potato, just debian stable main contrib non-free debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free stable/updates main contrib non-free BTW, the CDs I installed from are 2.2r0 2814 I assume the first and third of those now-commented entries are what I want to uncomment, and maybe then *comment* the CD entries? Thanks -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X won't start
Sometime around 8:49 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote thus: > debian stable main contrib non-free debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free stable/updates main contrib non-free Ah..."stable" is currently an alias of "potato", so that's the word you should replace with "woody". Rumours say that it's not long time until "stable" will be pointing to "woody". BTW, the CDs I installed from are 2.2r0 2814 I assume the first and third of those now-commented entries are what I want to uncomment, and maybe then *comment* the CD entries? That's right. The second one, too, if you want crypto software. Cool. Been doing apt-get update it keeps telling me lgn http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release then I get a while of a small percentage of [Connecting to http.us.debian.org] the percentage has never seemed to go over 17% and then I get Failed to fetch ... 302 Moved Temporarily Failed to fetch ... 0 Moved Temporarily a few W couldn't stat source package list (with long url) and then W You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E. Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored or old ones used instead. So of course apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade anything ... and apt-get update just repeats its loop. Is this usual ... just keep trying? -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X won't start
Sometime around 11:01 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote thus: > Cool. Been doing apt-get update it keeps telling me lgn http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release then I get a while of a small percentage of [Connecting to http.us.debian.org] the percentage has never seemed to go over 17% and then I get Failed to fetch ... 302 Moved Temporarily Failed to fetch ... 0 Moved Temporarily I don't think I've ever experienced that. I guess it _could_ be related to the non-US issue, though, so you should try commenting out that second line again. Here's what I get after apt-get update (source.list urls at bottom): Err http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages 302 Moved Temporarily lgn http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release Err http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Packages 302 Moved Temporarily lgn http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release Err http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Packages 302 Moved Temporarily lgn http://http.us.debian.org. woody/non-free Release Err http://http us. debian.org woody/main Sources 302 Moved Temporarily lgn http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release Err http:http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Sources 0 Moved Temporarily lgn http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release Err http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Sources 302 Moved Temporarily lgn http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Release Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-powerpac/Packages 302 Moved Temporarily Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/contrib/binary-powerpac/Packages 302 Moved Temporarily Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-powerpac/Packages 302 Moved Temporarily Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/source/Sources 302 Moved Temporarily Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/contrib/source/Sources 302 Moved Temporarily Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/non-freee/source/Sources 302 Moved Temporarily bottom warnings are Couldn't stat source package list 'http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory (repeated for contrib and non-free) INFO FROM SOURCE.LIST FILE I seemed to get the security urls pop up a lot in the errors, so I commented out that in source.list Obviously that didn't help. The uncommented urls, therefore, that resulted in the above messages are: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free Thanks -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X won't start
Sometime around 5:47 PM -0400 on 6/13/02, Josh Huber wrote thus: Here's what your /etc/apt/sources.list file should look like if you want woody from http.us.debian.org + non-us: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main contrib deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib If you would also like to be able to use the apt-get source functionality, you'll need these lines as well. deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main contrib deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib After modifying the souces.list file, you'll need to run apt-get update to update your package lists, then: apt-get dist-upgrade It looked like the deb -and deb-src urls in my source.list were slightly off ... it was from 2.2r0 CD after all :) However even after I added the slash (if that even mattered at <.../debian/ woody> I still got the same 302 errors, for example: Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/diss/woody/main/binary-powerpc/Packages 302 Moved Temporarily repeated for all the usual attempts ... on some of the non-US stuff I got: Failed to fetch http://us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-powerpc/Packages Something wicked happend resolving 'us.debian.org/http' And then it also repeated from my previous attempts Couldn't stat source package list 'http://http.us.debian.or woody/contrib Package' (/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_contrib_binary-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) Maybe I should just find a woody .iso instead ...??? -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X won't start
At sometime around 6:55 PM -0700 on 6/13/02, Chris Tillman wrote thus: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:02:16PM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: Sometime around 11:01 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, H?vard Skinnemoen wrote thus: The uncommented urls, therefore, that resulted in the above messages are: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free / woody main contrib non-free I believe the slash that should be^ here is significant. Why not just run dselect. I think either one has an interface to add sources and will put the lines you need in the sources.list without typos. Tried dselect which ran very well for awhile, till it started spitting out 302 Moved Temporarily and 0 Moved Temporarily errors again. Starting to wonder if it has something to do with our firewall. I know that Mac OS X Software Update will not access the Apple site unless I have passworded through the firewall in another program, like a web browser. apt-get and dselect do not invoke the firewall-password request. But lynx does. Is there a way to have lynx running in one window and then start dselect in another? I've tried passwording through with lynx and then immediately quitting it and starting dselect, but, as I said, dselect then poops out, as if the firewall closed down again (which it does when you close a web browser in Mac OS. I tried doing F1 and F2 and F3 to invoke an additional command line, like I remembered doing in other distros, but got nothing. OR is there a way to get apt-get or dselect to force a firewall-password prompt? -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X won't start
At sometime around 14:23:46 -0400 on 6/14/02, Josh Huber wrote thus: Marc Stergionis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OR is there a way to get apt-get or dselect to force a firewall-password prompt? Oh! You're using an http-proxy? I'm sorry, perhaps I missed that fact from the start of the thread. You'll need to setup http proxy settings. In /etc/apt/apt.conf you should put something like: Acquire::HTTP::Proxy "http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";; Or, just to test (without editing that file) you can set the "http_proxy" environment variable to that same value. The environment variable will override the settings in apt.conf, btw. I tried doing that and got errors. Not sure what to put in as "proxy.address" What I put in was exactly: Acquire::HTTP::Proxy "http://MyUserName:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";; where e.benefis.org is our domain alternatively, after running lynx to password through the firewall, I was able to get apt-get update to run and upgraded to woody (Debian3 shows on bootup) Then when I asked for startx I got /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot execute: No such file or directory giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit No such process (errno 3): Server error. Not sure what I need to install to overcome this? Thanks. -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X getting close (was X won't start)
I was able to squeeze out a second dselect update to woody which seemed to install alot more. But still having trouble with video settings. Been fiddling around with XFree86Config-4 but can't seem to get the right combination. my Device identifier is "Generic Video Card" Driver "ati" Option "Use FBDEV" "true" Mointor Idenfitier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 28-50 VertRefresh 43-75 Iotuin "DPMS" Screen Identifier Control Device "Generic Video Card" Monitor "Apple Multiple Scan 15AV Display Default Depth 24 subsection display Depth 1 Modes "832x624" "640x480" and of course repeated down to depth 24. I have tried putting in the readouts from Apple System Profiler where it looked like they went in XFree86Config-4 to no avail. I have a stock 8600-300 with added memory. ASP reports under display: Card Name Control Model AAPL,343S1154 XF86Config-4 does not like the term "Apple Multiple Scan 15AV Display" among others. startx specifically reports Undefined Monitor "Apple Multiple Scan 15AV Display" referenced by Screen "Control." What does config want to see there!! -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X getting close (was X won't start)
At sometime around 8:41 AM +0200 on 6/15/02, Michel Lanners wrote thus: Try my attached XFconfig. It's for control on a 7600. Substitute my Dell Monitor with yours, and make sure to correct the horizontal and vertical frequency range. Thanks Michel. I think I'm close. startx seems to want to restart the monitor under X but maybe having mouse trouble. My errors: PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or directory (EE) Configured Mouse; cannot open input device (E) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse" (WW) No core pointer registered No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices XI0: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Questions. This 8600, of course, has an ADB Mouse II mouse, should that be entered anywhere in Input Devices? Input devices had two sections for mice: "Configured Mouse" and "Generic Mouse" I have commented out "Generic" what do I put in /dev/input/mice to make this work. Potato 2.2r0 upgraded to Woody. Thanks. -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X getting close (was X won't start)
Yup, that worked!!! Looks like my keyboard is *way* scambled now, though. When I started X and ran a terminal, the keys did not match what I was typing. And it looks like my resolution is 640 by 480, but it's trying to display something much bigger, I'm missing some of the screen. When I did a forced restart (Mac key command) I got a GUI login instead of text which I specified at install. And I can't log in because my keys aren't mapped right? There's a little consol in the bottom right corner. When I try to log in as root I get tab (jumps to the other field) ssw instead of root When I do backspace (delete) it types commas. when I try to type my user (marc) I get "nothing typed" for "m" If I try to do commandF2 or commandF3 or optionF2 or optionF3 to get a terminal, I get nothing (of course Debian isn't seeing it as commandF2 ??) Can I force a text login somehow, and what keyboard fixes/resolution fixes am I looking for?? Thanks -ms Sometime around 7:13 PM +0200 on 6/17/02, Michel Lanners wrote thus: On 17 Jun, this message from Marc Stergionis echoed through cyberspace: At sometime around 8:41 AM +0200 on 6/15/02, Michel Lanners wrote thus: Try my attached XFconfig. It's for control on a 7600. Substitute my Dell Monitor with yours, and make sure to correct the horizontal and vertical frequency range. Thanks Michel. I think I'm close. startx seems to want to restart the monitor under X but maybe having mouse trouble. (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or directory (EE) Configured Mouse; cannot open input device (E) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse" (WW) No core pointer registered No core pointer This 8600, of course, has an ADB Mouse II mouse, should that be entered anywhere in Input Devices? No. Input devices had two sections for mice: "Configured Mouse" and "Generic Mouse" I have commented out "Generic" That's debconf-generated XFConfig. Doesn't do any harm. what do I put in /dev/input/mice to make this work. as root# cd dev; ./MAKEDEV input Potato 2.2r0 upgraded to Woody. Strange; input devices should have been created then... -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X getting close (was X won't start)
At sometime around 6:30 PM -0700 on 6/17/02, Chris Tillman wrote thus: On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:30:51PM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: Yup, that worked!!! Looks like my keyboard is *way* scambled now, though. Somehow your default keymap got changed. Check out http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes Well I kinda went nuts and did a clean install of 2.2r6 and X worked right out of the gate. Except!! I have no mouse. Well I do (I think) but the cursor is frozen at the bottom center of the screen. I can't seem to find anything in XF86Config that would affect this?? And the graphical login is stuffed down in the bottom half of the screen as if I can't see the bottom of it (there's black border around the top, left and right, but I can't discern a border on the bottom, that white box is jammed down in there... Is this a setting I've missed? I'm also trying to change the WM but none of these have worked: switchdesk gnome creating .xinitrc file containing "startgnome" -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X getting close (was X won't start)
At sometime around 9:47 PM +0200 on 6/18/02, Michel Lanners wrote thus: On 18 Jun, this message from Marc Stergionis echoed through cyberspace: Somehow your default keymap got changed. Check out http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes Well I kinda went nuts and did a clean install of 2.2r6 and X worked right out of the gate. Hmmm... Any specific reason to do that? It seems like a big step backwards to me.. Me too, but (under woody) my keycodes were a mess, display seemed off (of course it seems to be off now, too) and Chris pointer to solve the keycodes problem could *not* be accessed on my second machine (Mac OS X) although I could get it to the point of www.debian.org/ports/powerpc ... don't know why Since I could still work on the G4 while letting Debian install on the 8600, I figured what the heck ... Except!! I have no mouse. Well I do (I think) but the cursor is frozen at the bottom center of the screen. I can't seem to find anything in XF86Config that would affect this?? What mouse setting are you using in X? What kernel? Is gpm running? On what device? Kernel 2.418-0.9a? that's what pops up when I do virtual console. Mouse, Protocol "BusMouse: Device "/dev/mouse" Those are the only things uncommented (the others appear to apply to specific pointing devices and/or second mice. gpm? I don't know how to find out if that's running. > And the graphical login is stuffed down in the bottom half of the screen as if I can't see the bottom of it (there's black border around the top, left and right, but I can't discern a border on the bottom, that white box is jammed down in there... You're using XFree 3.3.something out of 2.2r6, right? I'm not sure that worked on your 'control' video card at all. But most importantly, you'll have a hard time finding someone to help debug XFree 3 :) May I suggest you dist-upgrade to woody, install XFree 4.1, and move on from there? I agree. I was going to say that I hoped I didn't lose the progress I've made ... but not sure that any has been made. Although I remember that the video was weird in woody too, like there was more on the bottom of the screen I couldn't see. -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X getting close (was X won't start)
At sometime around 3:54 PM -0600 on 6/18/02, Marc Stergionis wrote thus: At sometime around 9:47 PM +0200 on 6/18/02, Michel Lanners wrote thus: On 18 Jun, this message from Marc Stergionis echoed through cyberspace: Somehow your default keymap got changed. Check out http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes Well I kinda went nuts and did a clean install of 2.2r6 and X worked right out of the gate. Hmmm... Any specific reason to do that? It seems like a big step backwards to me.. Me too, but (under woody) my keycodes were a mess, display seemed off (of course it seems to be off now, too) and Chris pointer to solve the keycodes problem could *not* be accessed on my second machine (Mac OS X) although I could get it to the point of www.debian.org/ports/powerpc ... don't know why Since I could still work on the G4 while letting Debian install on the 8600, I figured what the heck ... Oh yeah, now I remember the main reason ... I just went ahead and *did* reupgrade the 8600 from 2.2r6 to woody. When I type startx it says xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path and that "X" is a program or a link to the right type of server for your display. Possible server names include: XFree 86XFree86 displays giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error. ??? -ms -- Many have Montana envy ... the lucky get to live here! Marc Stergionis Community Relations & website author Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
