X, GNOME, and Debian

2000-09-14 Thread Jeffry Smith
Thanks to all the suggestions. Checking .gnome-errors showed that gnome couldn't find gnome-session. Ran apt-get install gnome-session, let it install gnome-session + dependencies, and GNOME came up just fine. Don't know why gnome-session didn't install the first time from the debian CD, but if

Re: X, GNOME, and Debian

2000-09-13 Thread Karl Gutenberg
Hello, Did you try using just ONE processor? Maybe the older X you use doesn't like it. You can try two things. XFree86 4.0.1, but I seem to recall that your S3 card won't be supported. Or you can try Linux 2.2.4-test8 or whatever is more recent kernel. It will behave totally different towar

Re: X, GNOME, and Debian

2000-09-13 Thread Leen Besselink
> use GNOME on top of X, the screen disappears into a bunch of little > stripes, and the keyboard locks up (even alt-ctrl-backspace doesn't > work). This was with the GNOME 1.0.53 from Debian. I installed Helix > (GNOME 1.2), same problem. I've done XF86Setup, both putting the > Happens regardl

X, GNOME, and Debian

2000-09-13 Thread Jeffry Smith
I installed Debian 2.2 on my home system (a dual PPro with 128MB of memory, S3 Trio3D video card w/4MB of memory, IBM POWERDisplay/20 monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 77 Hz, multifrequency], Logitech trackball). X works fine (using the recommended SVGA server, X version 3.3.6). However, when I try to