Amazingly enough, it launched an xterm when I logged in. Now the only
problem is that the key mappings are wrong. Everything works fine
except for the spacebar and capslock keys. The capslock key is dead,
and the spacebar acts as two spaces and the capslock key. Also, I have
a one-button
Oh, also the arrow keys put in 2, 4, 6, and 8 instead of being arrow
keys...
And, --list doesn't seem to be valid syntax for update-alternatives.
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 07:47 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
I installed gnome-core, but it reports the same message.
Try apt-get install
On Thursday 24 July 2003 5:00, Steven Schlansker wrote:
Amazingly enough, it launched an xterm when I logged in.
It seems that gnome-core doesn't get everything you want. Apt-get these, too:
apt-get install gnome-control-center gnome-help gnome-panel gnome-session
Now the only
problem is
It seems that gnome-core doesn't get everything you want. Apt-get
these, too:
apt-get install gnome-control-center gnome-help gnome-panel
gnome-session
Got it.
OK, the next time you log in, you should get more than just an xterm.
I replaced Xpmac with XFree86, and put those kernel
Cool. You could also try to raise it again to 16 if you want. But first use it
a bit. :)
Frank
On Thursday 24 July 2003 6:55, Steven Schlansker wrote:
Aha! It works!
Thanks a bunch...
It FINALLY works!!! Yay!
*does a little dance*
Yeah, it should have known to go down because it didn't
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 18:41, Frank Murphy wrote:
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
Just a guess, but I bet the valkyrie chip doesn't do 24 bit depth. Change it
to 8 to start, and perhaps try 15 or 16 later.
To
I'm surprised that XFree86 doesn't downgrade automatically though.
Why? The X server generally tries to behave as requested, and if that's
not possible, it aborts. Even if you don't like this policy, and
assuming that it knows that the depth causes the problem (I doubt it,
but I have to
I used debconf all the way through...
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 04:04 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
I'm surprised that XFree86 doesn't downgrade automatically though.
Why? The X server generally tries to behave as requested, and if
that's
not possible, it aborts. Even if you don't like
The Opt-F1,F2,etc trick wasn't working, and neither does this.
To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log
And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X server
doesn't seem to support valkyrie video devices.
The log follows:
Woowoo
Xpmac / X Window
The Opt-F1,F2,etc trick wasn't working, and neither does this.
I think that the Xpmac server doesn't allow this ctrl-opt-F1 trick (but
it is Control and Opt and Function key; I assume you typoed that above.)
To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log
And, to those who
(I switched X back to Xpmac before all of this)
I actually didn't compile it - I found a .deb and installed it using
dpkg. I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a
cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console in
the bottom right. When I enter my
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote:
To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log
And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X server
doesn't seem to support valkyrie video devices.
The Xpmac seems to only log to the display manager,
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote:
To those who wanted the logs, it was actually at /var/log/xdm.log
And, to those who are saying that it's unsupported, the 'real' X
server
doesn't seem to support valkyrie video
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 18:06, Steven Schlansker wrote:
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:20, Frank Murphy wrote:
But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile
it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video
I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a
cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console in
the bottom right. When I enter my name/pass, the console prints (xdm)
session opened by uid and the rest is cut off at the edge of the
screen. The screen
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 4:48, Steven Schlansker wrote:
Kernel options? Where do I set those?
I set the video driver to the framebuffer one (fbdev I think) but it
doesn't work. (in the real XFree86 that is) - I'll try to set the
video=valkyriefb as soon as someone tells me where I set the
But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile
it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video devices are unsupported
in Debian.
Unsupported? The fbdev driver should work with it, at least with
valkyriefb.
Ah OK. So Xpmac is unsupported, but valkyrie devices are
I found this description on
http://www.imaclinux.net/php/plain_page.php3?caller=imaclinux_g_h.php3+record=5
Apple Valkyrie Video (valkyriefb)
The video chip in the Performa 6400 and the PowerMacintosh 6400/6500 is
codename Valkyrie. It is an internal Apple chip, the only acceleration
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote:
But Xpmac is unsupported in Debian (which is why you had to compile
it yourself), so that means that valkyrie video devices are unsupported
in Debian.
Unsupported? The fbdev driver should work with it, at least with
valkyriefb.
Ah OK. So
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote:
I found this description on
http://www.imaclinux.net/php/plain_page.php3?caller=imaclinux_g_h.php3+record=5
Apple Valkyrie Video (valkyriefb)
The video chip in the Performa 6400 and the PowerMacintosh 6400/6500 is
codename Valkyrie. It is an
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:31 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
I turned authorization off as you said, and now I get a
cooler-looking login screen, along with a little output-only console
in
the bottom right. When I enter my name/pass, the console prints
(xdm)
session opened by uid and
This does look like a problem:
Xsession: unable to start X session; no /home/steven/.xsession file, no
/home/steven/.Xsession file, no session managers, no window managers,
and no
terminal emulators found. Aborting.
Seems that you don't have any X programs installed. I don't know if you
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