Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 15:12, Adam C Powell IV wrote:Michel Dänzer wrote:On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 03:58, Adam C Powell IV wrote:Nick Bailey wrote:Thridly (out of two 8-): the mouse crashes when exiting KDE. I've not seen this in a bug report. It's a USB one and works fine until you exit KDE. The remapping of F11 and F12 as the two mouse buttons works fine too (just left the stuff in from Potato). I know there's a way to go yet before Woody gets release, but I wanted to be ready 8-)This is a known problem with X 4.1.0, on both PPC and ARM (little-endian, but unsigned char and framebuffer like PPC). Seems to happen with kdm and gdm (the GNOME version), and I've noticed that if I log in and log out real fast, it's fine.Haven't seen it with gdm, does it only happen with the fbdev driver?Must be an fbdev driver thing then.Strange though; what the ... does the fbdev driver have to do with the mouse? The only thing I can imagine is that it's somehow related to ShadowFB, but of course reality tends to go far beyond any imagination. :)
I dunno. Anyway, progress report.I have tried installing libarts from the pool, and apart from having to --autodeconfigure the -dev version, it makes no difference. Still the byte reversal problem. I will try to have a look at this just as soon as I've written some exam questions and marked some masters dissertations, but I don't know when that will be.
On the positive side, the sticking mouse has been cured. I don't know how, but it was coincident with an XFree base upgrade. The configurer asked me for the PCI slot my video card was in and I took the default. It seemed to know the rest, but it also broke the keyboard again (it changed it to using macintosh_old, probably because I'd been messing around with the config file by hand and it didn't catch up).
I have also got some sort of netscape working (actually mozilla, but only if invoked "mozilla-bin"). This is a big plus because on my Sid laptop, KMail has IMAP but on Woody Macs it hasn't, so I'd rather install Mozilla than go for a strange mixed-distribution system. Also, I expect all the students will prefer Netscape of some sort. Mozilla looks good so far, but it's strange you have to invoke it "mozilla-bin": I can't see any thing wrong in the "mozilla" script, but it just seems to suspend (never returns from the prompt, but the rest of the system responds perfectly normally)
-ves: I can't seem to work out how to get 24bit. When booted into MacOS 9, you can select "Millions of colors", but I didn't type the RAM into the XF86Config-4 file at any point and the auto-probe returns 1600K or something (I'm running at 1152xwhatever). Private colourmaps everywhere. I will fiddle with this a bit too; maybe try telling it I've got 4MB and see what happens 8-)
Thanks for all your input so far! I hope this doesn't end up as HTML: it's the first time I've used the Mozilla mailer.
Nick/.