Re: Mo longer memory question, now just 'startx'

2001-11-05 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 05/11/01, Mike Yukish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I try to do 'startx', a couple of full screens worth of messages flow > past too fast to read before the screen goes blank, then the background of > the Debian logo appears, I get what looks to be an icon in the upper left > corner of t

Re: Mo longer memory question, now just 'startx'

2001-11-05 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 05/11/01, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > then nothing else happens and the computer fails to respond to any > > mouse or keyboard actions short of the three finger reboot. > Hm, can you switch to a virtual console? Try typing > Contro

Re: Mo longer memory question, now just 'startx'

2001-11-05 Thread Mike Yukish
At 04:12 PM 11/5/01 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: I'm guessing your mouse type is set incorrectly in the X configuration file. If /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/input/mice, setting the mouse type to ps/2 will work (at least, it did for me). How many buttons does your mouse have? One. I

Re: Mo longer memory question, now just 'startx'

2001-11-05 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Monday 05 November 2001 08:34, Mike Yukish wrote: > At 04:40 PM 11/2/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am a Linux newbie, and I just managed to get the Debian 2.2 R3 > > > booted up on my PowerMac 7600/120. Tried to do 'startx' and the > > > kernel panicked.

Re: Mo longer memory question, now just 'startx'

2001-11-05 Thread Colin Walters
Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to do 'startx', a couple of full screens worth of > messages flow past too fast to read before the screen goes blank, As Georg said, you can redirect this to a file. > then the background of the Debian logo appears, I get what looks to > be an

Re: Mo longer memory question, now just 'startx'

2001-11-05 Thread Georg Koss
Hi Mike! > > When I try to do 'startx', a couple of full screens worth of messages flow > past too fast to read before the screen goes blank, then the background of > the Debian logo appears, I get what looks to be an icon in the upper left > corner of the screen that is labeled 'main', three i

Mo longer memory question, now just 'startx'

2001-11-05 Thread Mike Yukish
At 04:40 PM 11/2/01 -0500, you wrote: Mike Yukish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a Linux newbie, and I just managed to get the Debian 2.2 R3 > booted up on my PowerMac 7600/120. Tried to do 'startx' and the > kernel panicked. I loaded the Gnome package on the initial > installation. What wa