Ok I just installed Synaptic on 8.10 which gave me a couple more gnome
goodies. It now allows me to type so I can log in.
However it's pretty much identical behavior as 9.04 now. I can type and
move the mouse though. On 9.04 it's a full black screen, but on 8.10
it's a brown screen and the
On Mon, 04 May 2009 11:13:01 -0700
Aaron Wilson aa...@ernieball.com wrote:
as though i'm in a full screen terminal session. Though it's a really
small font that I can tell means x is sort of working correctly. I
can't type either.
But you could log in, so the keyboard worked in gdm?
I think
Maybe I didn't have gnome or any desktop manager installed?
Like I said I never use Server just Desktop.
The way I read the wiki is:
sudo apt-get install libldap-2.4-2 libmotif3 module-assistant tk8.4
tomcat5.5 sun-java6-jre ldap-utils dhcp3-server nscd gawk iputils-ping
pdksh unzip alien
I believe that the Wiki assumes that you are using the desktop version
of Ubuntu 9.04 which includes the gnome packages automatically rather
than the server version which does not.
Brad
On May 4, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Aaron Wilson wrote:
Maybe I didn't have gnome or any desktop manager
Yeah I'm slowly starting to figure that out :)
Title of the wiki led me to download the Server version...
SRSS 4.1 10/08 on Ubuntu 8.10 Server (i386 and amd64)
probably should be
SRSS 4.1 10/08 on Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (i386 and amd64)
Aaron Wilson
Ernie Ball, Inc.
I.T. Department