Le mer 19/11/2003 � 03:20, Brendan J Simon a �crit : > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > Ludovic Aubry wrote: > > > >>> I'm trying to run Gnome 2.2 on a PowerBook 17" running Debian > >>> Testing. It runs really slow and the panel never shows. The only > >>> way I can get X running is to start up an xterm and then run sawfish > >>> manually. I've tried running "gnome-session -failsafe" mannually > >>> and it is so slow. The splash screen takes a long time though > >>> recently it seems to be faster. Then it takes a long while for the > >>> icons in the splash screen to be displayed. Finally sawfish fires > >>> up and that is it. But I don't have the panel and the sawfish menus > >>> don't allow me to fire up apps, not even an xterm. HELP!!! > >>> > >> > >> I had a similar problem on an iBook with sid, some time ago. > >> I think I solved it by disabling fam > >> > > I don't think I've got fam installed. Maybe thtat's the problem but > > if so then the dependencies are not quite right. > > I have libfam0c102 installed but not the fam daemon. I might try > > installing that and see how I go. > > I installed gnome from unstable and it does the same thing. The splash > screen comes up straight away and then just sits there. Eventually > sawfish appears but that is after a long delay. I saw exactly the same things on GNOPPIX on a i386 laptop yesterday evening.
> Is it something with my X server or possible something with my kernel. > Maybe I need a particular module loaded (eg. sound or something). > I am using XF86 v 4.3.0 from experimental. I need > 4.3 to support my > hardware.
downgrading to Xfree86 from unstable fixes these issues. I think they are related to fonts. Try reinstalling fontconfig and letting it rebuild the font cache.
I have seen this a lot on knoppix systems when upgrading/installing gnome2.4. After downgrading Xfree86 things are good again :-) Just remember to change the protocol for the mouse from "auto" to whatever you have "IMPS/2" or "PS/2".
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