Re: gnome still not working properly on powerpc/testing

[Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@bigpond.com>]

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.

Cheers,
Brendan Simon.