On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Bob Sams wrote:
> Stew, et al:
>
> I completed an install of the beta2 ISO on a Wallstreet PowerBook with
> no significant problems except an attempt to run "Chromium" messed
> everything up so badly I had to reinstall. (I know, "Don't do that.")
> As usual, the All.gz and kernel options settings are important
>
> video=atyfb,vmode:14
>
> However, XFree86 4.2 configuration in the installer give the correct
> video card option as RAGE LT PRO and works fine.
>
Hmm, like r128. can't get that darn card to cooperate in the install at
all.
> Also, after bumping my head a few times on getting an Orinoco Silver
> card to work, I just restarted as root with no hardwire net connection,
> put the card in the slot, went to the Control Center Network module and
> fired it up. Worked fine ever since.
>
> Problem One - OpenOffice installs and runs, but all the menu text is
> invisible. I removed it and installed the latest tar from
> OpenOffice.org which runs fine except for the menu links.
>
[root@powerbook disk]# diff -u
/home/frank/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xml
/home/stew/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xml
---
/home/frank/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xml
2003-02-12 19:49:12.000000000 -0500
+++
/home/stew/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xml
2003-01-19 09:14:42.000000000 -0500
@@ -7,18 +7,55 @@
<Always cfg:type="boolean">true</Always>
<OnScreenOnly cfg:type="boolean">true</OnScreenOnly>
<ReplaceFont cfg:type="string">Andale Sans UI</ReplaceFont>
- <SubstituteFont cfg:type="string">Luxi Sans</SubstituteFont>
+ <SubstituteFont cfg:type="string">Times</SubstituteFont>
So far, I haven't been able to rebuild OOo. If that trend continues, I'll
need to do something in the installer to fix this system wide.
> Problem Two - Permissions on the CDROM have this novice stumped. Audio
> CD's won't play.
>
Generally you don't need to do anything with this
ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Dec 31 1969 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
-> ../ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd
Supermount is active at the moment. xmms and supermount don't seem to play
well together in general, but sometimes you get lucky.
kscd is playing a CD now, in X, logged in as stew
Just tried xmms, with /mnt/cdrom (with and without supermount). - works
too.
New machines with no analog out from the CD, need to user cdparanoia or
the xmms-cdread plugin.
Stew Benedict
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