Re: [Fink-users] powerbook keyboard and gnome

2008-10-05 Thread Martin Costabel
Stan Sanderson wrote: I will try this again- The latest Gnome runs, but any attempt to input text is hopeless. The character mapping is chaotic, at best. If I start X11 by itself (i.e., without a .xinitrc file), the keyboard maps correctly and all is well. If I start up Gnome, all is

Re: [Fink-users] [gnome-core] powerbook keyboard and gnome

2008-10-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stan Sanderson wrote: I will try this again- The latest Gnome runs, but any attempt to input text is hopeless. The character mapping is chaotic, at best. If I start X11 by itself (i.e., without a .xinitrc file), the

Re: [Fink-users] [gnome-core] powerbook keyboard and gnome

2008-10-05 Thread Martin Costabel
Richard Cobbe wrote: [] See the thread at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.gnome/2070 for a discussion and my imperfect but usable workaround. If anyone needs additional help creating the good .xmodmaprc file or with the rest of the workaround, please feel free to contact me.

Re: [Fink-users] [gnome-core] powerbook keyboard and gnome

2008-10-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:45:30PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: I suggest therefore the following procedure: 1. Quit X11 and move ~/.xinitrc out of the way. Then run xmodmap -pke ~/.Xmodmap (This will start X11 again.) Note that this won't include settings for modifiers like Shift,

Re: [Fink-users] can't install package maxima-5.16.3-2

2008-10-05 Thread Gary K Olson
After installing the new version of clisp (2.46-2), the updated maxima would not install. I got the following message: Reading buildlock packages... /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin- powerpc/maxima_5.16.3-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (Reading database ... 257364

Re: [Fink-users] can't install package maxima-5.16.3-2

2008-10-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Oct 5, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Gary K Olson wrote: After installing the new version of clisp (2.46-2), the updated maxima would not install. I got the following message: Reading buildlock packages... /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-

Re: [Fink-users] [gnome-core] powerbook keyboard and gnome

2008-10-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
Martin and Alexander- Your knowledge and helpfulness is awesome. Once again I thank you (and Martin, also) for your help in providing a work-around. My keymaps are now correct. Alexander- I thought I had seen the related discussion, but obviously I need to refine my search strategy. This

Re: [Fink-users] clisp compiling problem prevents maxima installation

2008-10-05 Thread Sean Lake
I don't know if that will help. I've run into a similar problem on a 10.5-unstable-Intel machine. Basically, I could install clisp 2.46-2, but then Maxima 5.16.3-2 wouldn't install. So, I reverted clisp so that I could have maxima. Recently libsigsegv was upgraded to version 1:2.5-4, and clisp is

Re: [Fink-users] clisp compiling problem prevents maxima installation

2008-10-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Oct 5, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Sean Lake wrote: I don't know if that will help. I've run into a similar problem on a 10.5-unstable-Intel machine. Basically, I could install clisp 2.46-2, but then Maxima 5.16.3-2 wouldn't install. maxima got updated last night to use clisp-2.46-2. No revision