On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 17:10, Phillip Remaker wrote: > 1) Both gpm and X were installed, and I naively told XFree86 that mouse was > at /dev/psaux instead of /dev/gpmdata. This is apparently a VERY common > mistake and I'm surprised there are no methods to catch and compensate for > the problem at install time. Would be nice if there were a way to track the > dependency and configure accordingly. > > 2) Somehow, the installer installed Gnome, but no window manager. This > seems to happen to some other people as well (at debianhelp.org). I had to > > apt-get install sawfish-gnome > apt-get install wmaker-gnome > > and then I had to select wmaker, and then switch back to sawfish to make > sawfish work. > > I got an error at install time about problems installing a window manager, > but I ignored them. If someone points me at the right log file, I will > share the messages. >
Ok well both 1 and 2 would be solved by installing ximian gnome. Go to ximian.com and thier gnome packages are far supirior to the debian ones(no offense but this is my opinion). They take care of the gpm problem by stoping it all together and it also installs sawfish by default. There are a few dependancy issues that you have to work out, but once you get it all working it is much better.(IMHO) -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten... The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity... Never look, for an age when the people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, like a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom" - Wendell Phillips
