Wow, you haven't gotten too many responses yet. I think it is because KDE,
Debian, PowerPC, and Mac-On-Lin is a pretty rare combination. I only know
about KDE, so I'll tell you what I can.
On Monday 24 February 2003 14:34, Aaron M. Curtis wrote:
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> 2) I just installed KOffice using apt-get install. As I watched my
> terminal Konsole, I noticed it removed my Kmail email client. After the
> install. I looked, and sure enough it's gone. I guess there was some
> kind of conflict and the installer just removed Kmail to resolve it. I'm
> figuring part of my problem is apt-get brought in the sid release of
> KOffice. Is there a release of Kmail that works with this version of
> KOffice. I really like KMail in comparison to Mozilla's browser.
>
I don't run Debian, and I must admit that I'm not really sure what Debian sid
is (I did a two-minute google search and I can't tell if it is the stable
packages or the unstable packages). What I can tell you is that I run
koffice-1.2-0.rc1.4 with kmail-3.0.3-3.2 just fine (stock RH 8.0 versions). I
personally don't like KOffice much (I'm an AbiWord, Gnumeric fan), but I
really like KMail, so I would suggest ditching KOffice entirely. I realize
that this is not much help, but at least I'm trying. You could also try to
get the versions of koffice and kmail that I'm using. They seem to play well
together.
> 3) I edited my XF86Config file to fit the screen setting to my PowerBook
> resolution so that I can see the kicker and the KMenu launcher at the
> bottom of my screen. The display settings work great and everything fits
> -- as long as I log in as root. If I log in using my "normal" username,
> it still tries to use as 1280 x ? resolution, and I can't see the Kicker.
I've never heard of this, but I would suggest deleting your .kde directory
for the user which has the problem. Be careful though, some KDE applications
store data in there. Perhaps you should just renam it so that a default one
is created. Or, if you hunt around, you could probably find exactly what file
contains the resolution stuff and just get rid of that. This is a shot in the
dark, and probably is overkill. In fact, I don't think screen resolution is
stored in the KDE settings, but if it is affecting only one user then it
sounds possible. Perhaps my inane comments will start a discussion with some
useful ideas.
> 5) I start up KDE 3.1 and receive an error that my sound output device
> isn't found and that the system will send sound output to null.
Make sure that /dev/dsp is owned by the user who is logged into KDE. You
should also check that your sound modules are loaded (use lsmod).
> -- Recent Linux Convert With "Minor" frustrations and about 40 hours put
> into this installation.
Debian is often referred to as an "expert" distribution. I still haven't
tried it (though maybe after this semester) because its reputation suggests
that you have to really know what you are doing to get everything set up.
Perhaps you would have a less frustrating first experience to Linux if you
started with a distribution that gave you more help out of the box -- like
Red Hat or Mandrake. I find Red Hat to be immediately usable (30 minute
install) and I have learned a lot by customizing it. Now that I know my way
around, I think I can try something more advanced without dying of
frustration. You sound like you know what you are doing, so I wouldn't want
to discourage you from debian; but if you find things too frustrating you
should try another distrubution before giving up and reverting to your old
OS.
I hope this helps. Do some of you Debian and PowerPC guys have better
suggestions?
Richard
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