X on imac

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I have an imac G3, bondi blue; i.e one of the first G3 imacs I think.  Sarge installs cleanly, but X has to be played with to work.  I need to set the default to 16 and comment out the resolutions for X to come up on boot.
 
I wanted to get sound to work, and changed my sources from stable to testing.  I got X using xorg to work, but still could not get sound.  So, I tried etch beta 3 install disk.  It also installs cleanly, but X hangs (at least under xfree86 I got error messages).  I saw a note that says the snd-powerpc can cause hangs so the default boot does not load this module.  Not true, it was being loaded so I commented it out in the modules file.  Still hangs.
 
I found a message in the archives that said that the etch install has problems with X, and use sarge with testing distribution. 
My question is have you got sound on your early imacs?  And do you have another way to get X to work with xfree86 other than 16 bit resolution and commenting out the screen sizes?
 
 
Regards, 
Terry Shannon

Re: Installing java plugin in Mozilla?

[tgs154-bw]

Well, the plugin interface to Mozilla is working. 
Java still is not.  I see java in about plugins in the
browser.  Running java -version still complains that
it cannot find the jvm.  I get the message:  JVM not
found libjvm.s0  - libjvm.so

Doing a locate on it I see that there are two, one
under the classic directory and another under the j9vm
directory.  This is in the documentation.  However,
why doesn't the java command see it?

I did  step 1 from below.

I forgot step 2, but when I ran update-alternatives it
told me there was only one alternative:
/usr/lib/j2re1.5-ibm/jre/bin/java  nothing to
configure.

For step 3, I updated the .profile for the root
account and the .bash_profile for my user account. 
I'm not sure where the default PATH is set from.

I tried your step 4 command and got an error.  I used
the command documented at IBM: set default to
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and run ln -s
/usr/lib/j2re1.5-ibm/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Since the browser sees the plugins I assume this is
correct.

So, for step 5 I guess I'll try what was suggested:
install java 1.5 from the tarball, i.e.  
dpkg -r ibm-j2re1.5 
command(?) ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc.tgz

I guess I could also try the SDK.  The files in the
jre archive have a date of 24 January 2006.  Perhaps
IBM left something out like they did with the 1.4
archives!!!

Not as close as I throught,
Terry

--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 03:16:35PM -0500, Terry
> Shannon wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps I can set up a link to /opt?  I'm new to
> linux/unix and find  
> > the documentation confusing.  I see that Wolfgang
> also has it  
> > installed in /usr/lib so maybe I just need to set
> up $PATH correctly  
> > and use the ln command Wolfgang provided.
> 
> 
> 1: 
> Build the deb package. Something along the line of:
> 
>  fakeroot make-jpkg --full-name "Your name" --email
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] --changes ibm-java2-sdk-50-linux-ppc.tgz
> 
> 2:
> run
> update-alternatives --config java
> 
> choose
> /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm/bin/java
> 
> 3:
> change your $PATH, please see my previous message in
> this thread
> 
> 4:
> build the links to your browser dirs. Also please
> check my precious
> message to do that ... 
> 
> 5:
> I hope I didn't forget anything ... :)
> 
> Sorry for being a bit non-verbose ... there's a
> movie on the telly
> ... :)
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
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